Defendant appeals from convictions arising out of his breaking into a food market in Malone, New York. Defendant alleges that the court erred in its Sandoval ruling which permitted the prosecution to inquire on cross-examination as to defendant's prior convictions for misdemeanors, but not to inquire as to the nature of these convictions or their underlying facts. The use of the "Sandoval compromise" properly allowed the jury to hear evidence bearing on defendant...
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