Court Opinion

ID: 9774380
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 18:18:02.04103+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:32:07.217608
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Steele Hays, Justice, dissenting. I believe the court is extending the use and effect of a motion in limine far beyond its intended scope. See generally Schichtl v. Slack, 293 Ark. 281, 727 S.W.2d 628 (1987), Kitchens v. State, 271 Ark. 1, 607 S.W.2d 345 (1980). It is one thing to hold that a motion in limine preserves an objection and quite another to extend it to the point of permitting the movant to affirmatively introduce such evidence. The latter course runs counter to the entrenched rule that one may not invite error and then complain. Peters v. Pierce, 308 Ark. 60, 823 S.W.2d 820 (1992); Eaves v. Lamb, 209 Ark. 987, 193 S.W.2d 328 (1946). And see Hays v. State, 260 Ark. 701, 597 S.W.2d 821 (Supplemental Opinion on denial of rehearing, Ark. App. 1980). I respectfully dissent.