A man convicted in 2014 for committing a murder that occurred 29 years earlier should get a new trial because of the improper admission of hearsay about past abuse he allegedly caused the victim, an appeals court determined.
The Appellate Division, Fourth Department, ruled from Rochester that allowing relatives of Ronald Meadow’s estranged wife Colleen to testify about statements they recalled her making prior to her March 1985 strangling death in Syracuse were hearsay that violated the courts’ long-standing rule established in People v. Molineux, 168 NY 264 (1901).
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