PEOPLE v. DUCHESNE


260 A.D.2d 214 (1999)

688 N.Y.S.2d 52

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. RICHARD DUCHESNE, Appellant.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

Decided April 13, 1999.


The court's Sandoval ruling permitting limited inquiry into defendant's two 1982 convictions for larceny and robbery was a proper exercise of discretion. The convictions were highly probative of defendant's credibility and were not unduly remote (People v Miller, 184 A.D.2d 375, lv denied 80 N.Y.2d 1028).

Evidence of an uncharged contemporaneous drug sale was properly admitted to show that defendant intended...

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