The court's Molineux ruling was a proper exercise of discretion. Although the court initially precluded the People from eliciting that defendant had previously committed a burglary with the other two perpetrators of the charged crime, the court properly permitted the People to ask a witness about that incident to clarify testimony elicited on cross-examination. That witness played a similar role in the prior burglary as he did in the burglary in the instant case, namely...
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