Izzo v. State

Eldridge, Judge.

A Fayette County jury found Michael Izzo guilty of simple battery and obstruction of an emergency telephone call, which charges arose pursuant to a domestic violence incident between Izzo and his girlfriend, Emily Johnson, at Johnson’s residence on Broken Bow Lane in the Shiloh Mobile Home Park in Fayetteville. He appeals, claiming the trial court erred in permitting the prosecutor to ask leading questions of the victim; in permitting the State to introduce impermissible character evidence; and by failing to grant his motion for a directed verdict based upon the sufficiency of…