ALBANY - Revisiting one of its best-known precedents, the 1901 ruling in People v. Molineux, the state Court of Appeals held on Feb. 16 that a court properly allowed testimony about a prior uncharged killing against a defendant who was pursuing an extreme emotional disturbance defense in an unrelated slaying.

In another ruling, the state’s highest court decided that a surrogate judge had properly decided that a bronze sculpture fashioned by the Russian-born artist Jacques Lipchitz had been properly gifted to a friend of the artist.

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