The court's Sandoval ruling balanced the appropriate factors and was a proper exercise of discretion. In this case involving a confidence game that became a robbery, the court properly permitted elicitation, inter alia, of the underlying facts of defendant's prior conviction involving a similar confidence game, since that conviction had a very high degree of probative value concerning defendant's credibility, and this probative value outweighed its prejudicial effect...
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