Urrutia v. Jewell

Smith, Presiding Judge.

A jury awarded Tamasine Jewell $150,000 in actual damages and $250,000 in punitive damages on her fraud claim against Norman Urrutia and three other defendants. In this appeal, Urrutia alone challenges an evidentiary ruling that allowed evidence about his prior similar business dealings. Urrutia also claims that the trial court erred in refusing to grant his motion in hmine to exclude, evidence about his Florida criminal convictions and erred by denying his motion for mistrial after that evidence was introduced. Because we find no error in these three rulings, we affirm.