Braxton Mason Ray v. Lindsay Michelle Roberts (Appeal from Mobile Circuit Court: CV-22-901778).

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• noting that this Court does not favor allowing parties to seek relief from errors to which they contributed below
• stating that a party cannot create an error in the trial court and then rely on that error as a basis for reversal
• noting that it is axiomatic that “a party may not harbor error at trial and then use that error as an appellate parachute”
• noting that this Court does not favor allowing parties to seek relief from errors to which they contributed below
• determining that a party may not “create[] the very error that it wishes to correct on appeal”
• stating that the “trial court’s decision .. ., though premised on an erroneous understanding of the legal elements of the charged offense, nonetheless constituted ... a decision on the sufficiency of the evidence under Nix”

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