Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, and as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, and a new trial is ordered. No questions of fact have been raised or considered.
The trial court's Sandoval ruling, permitting the prosecutor to cross-examine the defendant with respect to the underlying facts of a drug-related felony conviction, did not constitute an improvident exercise of discretion. A prosecutor is not automatically precluded from...
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