Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant contends that the trial court's Sandoval ruling effectively prevented him from presenting a defense. We disagree. The trial court's Sandoval ruling, which permitted the prosecutor to cross-examine the defendant for impeachment purposes concerning the underlying facts of certain prior convictions of theft-related crimes in the event the defendant testified at trial, was not an improvident exercise of...
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