People v. Morales

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Lawrence Tonetti, J.), rendered June 22, 2000, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of arson in the second degree and unlawful imprisonment in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to an aggregate term of 15 years, unanimously affirmed.

Testimony about defendant’s prior incarceration and purported threats to his ex-lover’s new boyfriend was “probative of defendant’s motive and intent, was inextricably interwoven with the narrative of events, and was necessary background to explain to the jury the relationship…