The Supreme Court providently exercised its discretion in permitting the People to elicit evidence of prior incidents of domestic violence between the defendant and the victim (see People v Molineux, 168 N.Y. 264 [1901]). The evidence was relevant and probative on the issue of motive, and it provided necessary background material to enable the jury to understand the defendant...
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