People v. Liccione

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.

*851Defendant has been convicted of second degree murder relating to the killing of his wife. The most substantial issue raised on this appeal is whether certain statements made by the individual who fatally assaulted defendant’s wife, which were admitted as a part of the wife’s dying declarations, constituted inadmissible hearsay. The assailant’s statements, as communicated by the victim before she died, implicated defendant in a plot to kill his wife, and were received in evidence, on the theory that defendant…