PEOPLE v. DATSUN


149 A.D.2d 430 (1989)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Edward Datsun, Appellant

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

April 3, 1989


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, 34 N.Y.2d 371). However, the ruling did not amount to...

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