In its Sandoval ruling, the court properly exercised its discretion in balancing the probative nature of defendant's prior narcotics convictions against the possibility of undue prejudice and appropriately permitted the People to elicit these convictions without revealing that they occurred in close proximity to the instant crime (People v Torres,
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