People v. Molloy

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Daniel P. FitzGerald, J.), rendered December 21, 2006, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal contempt in the first degree (three counts) and criminal contempt in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to an aggregate term of 2 to 4 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly admitted evidence of prior incidents involving the same victim, since this evidence was probative of the “reasonable fear of . . . physical injury” element of Penal Law § 215.51 (b) (vi), as well as to explain the origin of the…