KINGSTON, N.Y. — An appellate court has rejected arguments that visiting Ulster County Judge James Farrell exceeded his authority when he allowed prosecutors in the Raymond Snyder murder trial to use evidence that had previously been precluded by Ulster County Judge Bryan Rounds.

Ulster County District Attorney Emmanuel Nneji lauded the Appellate Court ruling, but said the community is still suffering from the aftermath of the lengthy case, which he said undermined “community confidence in our judicial system” that his office must now work to restore.

“I’m glad that the Appellate Division has made the decision that it has made and we move forward,” Nneji said in a telephone interview Thursday.

In his filing with the Appellate Division, Bradford White, Snyder’s defense attorney, clai

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