People v. Dobbins

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Ira Beal, J.), rendered December 6, 1994, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 41/2 to 9 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court’s Sandoval ruling was a proper exercise of discretion (see, People v Walker, 83 NY2d 455 , 459; People v Rivera, 227 AD2d 205 , lv denied 88 NY2d 993 ).

By failing to make sufficient offers of proof, defendant failed to preserve his claim that the court improperly limited his cross-examination at the suppression hearing (People v Nieves, 215 AD2d 325 , lv denied 86 NY2d 799 ). Were we to review these claims in the interest of justice, we would find that the hearing court properly precluded, as irrelevant, cross-examination of the arresting officer concerning unrelated arrests he made on the day of defendant’s arrest (see, People v Alston, 215 AD2d 108 , 109, lv denied 86 NY2d 732 ; People v Gonzalez, 189 AD2d 701 , lv denied 81 NY2d 971 ). Concur— Sullivan, J. P., Milonas, Rosenberger, Ellerin and Mazzarelli, JJ.