Freeman v. State

Theodore Freeman appeals his convictions and sentences for sale of cocaine within 1,000 feet of a church and possession of cocaine. He argues the trial court abused its discretion in admitting evidence of his three prior felony convictions to impeach him. He acknowledges case law permitting the court to admit such impeachment evidence when a non-testifying defendant introduces his own out-of-court exculpatory statement(s) through another witness. But, he argues, the evidence he elicited while cross-examining a prosecution witness was not an exculpatory statement, and the evidence of his prior…