We disagree with the ruling of the trial court on defendant's Sandoval motion which permitted cross-examination as to a 12-year-old 1965 conviction for breaking and entering in Virginia and to an 11-year-old 1966 conviction for unlawful entry. These convictions were sufficiently remote in time to conclude that they should have had no substantive effect upon defendant's credibility. The Trial Justice, in rejecting the argument that the earlier convictions were remote...
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