Court Opinion

ID: 9669099
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 02:39:29.182208+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:15:52.382382
License: Public Domain

Tom Glaze, Justice, concurring. I join the majority opinion, but concur to its treatment of points one and three, and particularly address appellant’s third argument. In this respect, appellant sought to ask the victim’s father if the victim had previously stated she had been dating another man. Appellant argues such testimony was relevant because the victim had told appellant that she thought she was pregnant. Appellant states this would have allowed him to argue to the jury that when the victim left him, she went to meet this other married man, who, after being told that she thought she was pregnant, killed her. Nothing in the record supports such rank speculation. Certainly, the statement sought to be elicited offered no foundation for such an argument. In sum, the testimony proffered was wholly irrelevant, and the trial court properly excluded it.