The court's Sandoval ruling, permitting the prosecutor to elicit four of defendant's prior felony convictions and one misdemeanor conviction and his use of an alias on one occasion, while precluding inquiry into the underlying facts of these crimes, inquiry into earlier convictions and inquiry into other occasions when defendant used aliases, balanced the appropriate factors and was a proper exercise of discretion (see, People v Walker,
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