Kevasia Tate v. State of Arkansas

Summary

The court affirmed Tate’s convictions and sentences after rejecting or declining to reach his six evidentiary challenges. It held that the challenged statements were admissible as non-hearsay, hearsay exceptions, or harmless even if erroneous; it also found no reversible error in the expert testimony or the witness’s use of an unidentified paper. The court further held that Tate’s cumulative-error argument was not preserved because he did not make a cumulative-error objection and obtain a ruling at trial.