Although the court's Sandoval ruling was undisputedly erroneous to the extent it permitted the People to elicit defendant's pending charges, defendant was not prejudiced, because the People announced, before completing their case, that they would not pursue that line of impeachment, and the court then gave defendant ample time to consider whether or not she wished to testify. Defendant did not preserve her claim that she had immutably committed herself to a trial strategy...
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