Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant maintains that he was subjected to an improper course of cross-examination and was thereby deprived of a fair trial. We disagree. It is well settled that trial courts have broad discretion in determining the extent to which the prosecution should be permitted to impeach the credibility of a testifying defendant through use of his prior convictions or bad acts (People v Mayrant,
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