Opinion ID: 1782673
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Heading: whether the circuit court erred in excluding an audiotape of boomtown's misrepresentations.

Text: ¶ 21. A decision of the trial court admitting or excluding evidence must be upheld unless there is an abuse of discretion. Walker v. Graham, 582 So.2d 431, 432 (Miss.1991). Ray offered into evidence an audiotape which contained portions of the public hearing before the Mississippi Gaming Commission. Boomtown objected to the tape on the bases that it was muffled, incomplete, cut out at times, contained inadmissible statements of gaming commissioners, and the declarant in the tape was available to testify. The trial judge listened to the tape and ruled that the tape would be inadmissible unless there was a contradiction of any statements in the tape. Three witness testified as to what was said in the audiotape. ¶ 22. Based on a review of the record, this Court holds that it was not an abuse of discretion to exclude the audiotape. The record reflects that Parrott's testimony did not contradict his statements in the audiotape. Furthermore, Ray did not contend at trial that what Parrott said on audiotape was different or contradictory, and Ray does not now contend that what Parrott said on audiotape was contradictory. For these reasons, we find it was not an abuse of discretion by the trial court to exclude the audiotape.