Opinion ID: 1044002
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Heading: Victim's Statements to Ms. Ellison

Text: Ms. Ellison was the emergency medical technician who arrived on the scene in response to the 911 call. Ms. Lackey told Ms. Ellison what her assailant had done, and she also identified the hat found on her bed as her attacker's. The trial court ruled that this testimony was nontestimonial and that it was admissible as an excited utterance. Although the defense challenged this ruling before the Court of Criminal Appeals and again before this Court, this issue was not raised in Defendant's motion for new trial. We agree with the intermediate appellate court that this issue has therefore been waived. See Tenn. R.App. P. 3(e); State v. Hatcher, 310 S.W.3d 788, 808 (Tenn.2010); State v. Keel, 882 S.W.2d 410, 416 (Tenn. Crim.App.1994). Defendant does not argue that this allegedly erroneous ruling by the trial court rises to the level of plain error, and we decline to address it as such.