Jenkins v. State

LEVEYCOHEN, MARDI, Associate Judge.

Ernest Jenkins (“Appellant”) appeals his conviction and sentence for failure to re-register as a sexual predator. Appellant argues that the trial court reversibly erred by excluding an out-of-court statement of a stockade employee which Appellant relied upon 'and led him to believe that he was prevented from reregistering. Because the excluded testimony was not being introduced for the truth of the matter asserted blit rather for the effect on the listener, we find that the trial court erred in excluding the statement as hearsay. The error was not harmless,…