Defendant was indicted for selling cocaine, a controlled substance, to an undercover State trooper on September 26, 1983. Prior to trial in January, 1984, on a Sandoval hearing, the trial court held that defendant's two prior convictions, based upon false statements made in 1971 and cheating by false pretenses in 1970, could be used for cross-examination purposes if defendant testified. The court also ruled at that time that evidence of uncharged sales of controlled...
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