The court's Sandoval ruling, permitting inquiry into eight of defendant's ten misdemeanor convictions and one felony while precluding inquiry into their underlying facts, constituted a proper exercise of discretion, and the mere fact that some of the prior crimes were similar to the crime for which defendant was charged in the instant case did not bar the prosecution from using them to impeach his credibility (People v Ellis,
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