Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The trial court properly permitted the prosecution to introduce evidence of the defendant's prior acts of abuse against the complainant as background material to explain the nature of the defendant's relationship with the complainant and the reasons that an order of protection was issued, and to demonstrate that the defendant's violation of the order of protection was neither innocent nor inadvertent (see People v Alvino,...
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