PEOPLE v. VICKERSTAFF


68 A.D.2d 918 (1979)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Steven Vickerstaff, Appellant

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

March 12, 1979


Judgment affirmed.

On direct examination the defendant admitted that he had previously been convicted of criminal trespass. During cross-examination the prosecutor questioned him with respect to the facts underlying that conviction. Such inquiry is not, per se, improper (see People v Reed, 56 A.D.2d 896, mot for lv to app den 42 N.Y.2d 830). However, the facts involved in the prior conviction were, to a degree, similar to...

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