869 So. 2d 414 - Porter v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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10 state decisions

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1. “In order to raise an error on appeal, Mississippi Rule of Evidence 103(a) requires that a contemporaneous objection on specific grounds must be made to the admission of evidence by the trial court. Denson v. State, 746 So.2d 927, 930 (¶ 17) (Miss.Ct.App.1999).... We can find no contemporaneous objection in the record to the questions offered by the State. The trial court allowed the evidence to be admitted and [the defendant] should have objected at that point in order to preserve the evidentiary issues for appeal. M.R.E. 103(a). [The defendant] is therefore barred from making such an assertion on appeal.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 174 So. 3d 848 - Bennie Gunn v. State of Mississippi

2. “The admissibility of evidence is within the discretion of the trial court and absent abuse of that discretion, the trial court's decision on the admissibility of evidence will not be disturbed on appeal.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. King v. State

3. “When the trial court stays within the parameters of the Mississippi Rules of Evidence, the decision to exclude or admit evidence will be afforded a high degree of deference.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. King v. State