The court's Sandoval ruling appropriately balanced the probative value of defendant's prior criminal convictions against the potential for prejudice by limiting inquiry to only the number of defendant's prior misdemeanor convictions, which, as the court noted, showed a continuous pattern of defendant's willingness to place his interests above those of society (People v Walker,
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