The prosecutor did not significantly exceed the bounds of the court's Sandoval ruling, permitting elicitation of defendant's two prior felony convictions but not the underlying facts. When, in an effort to clarify that defendant was admitting to two separate convictions, the prosecutor asked whether she had "pled guilty twice", defendant's spontaneous, unresponsive assertion of innocence of one of the crimes opened the door to further questions about the honesty of...
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