Packer v. State

OPINION

SHARPNACK, Judge.

Aaron Packer appeals his conviction for murder, a felony. 1 Packer raises one issue, which we restate as whether the trial court abused its discretion by admitting the tapes of pretrial conversations he had with his girlfriend during telephone calls from jail. We affirm.

The relevant facts follow. On January 25, 2002, at approximately 7:45 a.m., Ronald Hernton left his apartment to go to work. On his way out of the Courtyard Place Apartment Complex, Hernton overheard a man, subsequently identified as Packer, and a woman, subsequently identified as Christie Clark,…