The prosecutor did not violate the court's Sandoval ruling when he began to elicit some of the underlying facts of defendant's prior conviction for selling drugs, and the court properly denied defendant's mistrial motion made on this ground. Viewing the Sandoval proceeding as a whole, we conclude that the ruling permitted elicitation of both the conviction and its underlying facts. In any event, the prosecutor's inquiry was cut off by defendant's objection after...
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