The court properly exercised its discretion in denying defendant's mistrial motion made when the prosecutor asked defendant a question on cross-examination that violated the court's Sandoval ruling by identifying a particular prior conviction. There was an ambiguity in the Sandoval ruling as to whether the nature of the conviction could be elicited and, as defendant conceded at trial, the prosecutor's violation of the ruling was not deliberate. Defendant was...
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