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Court Should Not Have Ruled Defendant Could Be Cross-Examined About His Prior Possession of Guns Under Sandoval—Possession of Guns Has No Bearing on Credibility

Although the error was deemed harmless, the Second Department noted that defendant’s prior conduct of possessing guns should not have been ruled a topic of proper cross-examination of the defendant. Gun possession has no relationship to credibility, which is the sole concern under Sandoval:

We agree with the defendant that the Supreme Court improvidently exercised its discretion in determining, after a Sandoval hearing (see People v Sandoval, 34 NY2d 371), that the People could inquire about the defendant’s prior conduct of possessing guns. Whereas “[c]ommission of perjury or other crimes or acts of individual dishonesty, or untrustworthiness . . . will usually have a very material relevance, whenever committed” (id. at 377), the fact that the defendant had possessed guns on a prior occasion had little bearing on his credibility … . People v Anderson, 2015 NY Slip Op 06355, 2nd Dept 7-29-15

 

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