Ellis v. State

SMITH, Presiding Judge.

Earl Ellis appeals from his convictions of robbery, battery, false imprisonment, and obstructing an emergency telephone call. Ellis contends the trial court erred by admitting into evidence an audiotape recording, giving the State two hearings regarding the admissibility of the audiotape, failing to give a curative instruction after the prosecutor injected his personal experience with domestic violence into his closing statement, failing to strike the testimony of similar transaction witnesses and issue a curative instruction, and restricting his counsel’s closing…