The victim of this shooting testified that he was employed by the defendant in defendant's heroin-selling enterprise, and when defendant shot him, defendant had been acting under the impression that the victim had been diluting the drugs. This testimony of defendant's drug enterprise was admissible under several exceptions to the general proscriptions of People v Molineux (168 N.Y. 264 [1901]). The evidence was admissible as probative of defendant's motive (supra...
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