Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
In ruling on the defendant's motion to preclude the prosecutor from cross-examining him as to prior convictions, the trial court should have undertaken a more careful balancing of the prejudicial effect of evidence of prior convictions against their probative value after hearing counsel's arguments (see, People v Sandoval,
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