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Anderson v. State

Citations

  • 111 P.3d 350
  • 2005 Alas. App. LEXIS 40
  • 2005 WL 858773

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that an assault victim's statement to police at the scene of the crime was nontestimonial
  • finding that statement was excited utterance makes it “inconsistent” with Crawford formulation of “testimonial”
  • consulting dictionaries for the “colloquial” meaning of “interrogation,” noting that the American Heritage Dictionary 4th ed.2000, defines “interrogate” as “to examine by questioning formally or officially,” and that Merriam-Webster Dictionary of Law (1996 ed.
  • “excited re- spouses to brief on-the-scene questioning by police officers” not “testimonial”
  • excited utterances by a crime victim to a police officer are not testimonial
  • “interrogation” refers to “category of formal, official, and systematic questioning”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Coats, Mannheimer, Stewart

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