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PEOPLE v. McKAY

260 A.D.2d 408 (1999)

686 N.Y.S.2d 711

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. VAUGHN McKAY, Appellant.

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

Decided April 5, 1999.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

After a Sandoval hearing, the court ruled that if the defendant testified in his own behalf, the prosecutor would be permitted to cross-examine him about his prior conviction for the sale of cocaine in 1991. Contrary to the defendant's contention, the prosecutor was not automatically precluded from questioning him about his prior conviction simply because it was similar to the crime charged (see, People v Pavao,

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