People v. Couvertier

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Bernard Fried, J., on Sandoval motion; Renee White, J., at trial), rendered October 20, 1993, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to a term of 31/2 to 7 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court’s Sandoval ruling, allowing the People to inquire into the date and nature of defendant’s four prior felony convictions without going into the underlying facts, was a proper exercise of discretion even though one of the convictions, like the instant crime, was for weapon possession (see, People v Smith, 217 AD2d 520 , 521-522). Defendant’s claim that the court did not properly respond to a jury note indicating that one of the jurors could not be impartial for personal reasons is unpreserved as a matter of law, since defendant neither asked