Opinion
November 28, 2000.
Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (William Leibovitz, J.), rendered November 10, 1998, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 5 1/2 to 11 years, unanimously affirmed.
Susan Gliner, for respondent.
Kristina Ross, for defendant-appellant.
Before: Rosenberger, J.P., Nardelli, Ellerin, Lerner, Andrias, JJ.
The court's Sandoval ruling balanced the appropriate factors and was a proper exercise of discretion (see, People v. Walker, 83 N.Y.2d 455, 458-459). While the court permitted a large number of convictions to be elicited, it precluded the People from identifying any of the convictions except for two felonies, and from eliciting the underlying facts of any of the convictions.
We perceive no basis for reduction of sentence.
THIS CONSTITUTES THE DECISION AND ORDER OF SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE DIVISION, FIRST DEPARTMENT.