Baker v. Ashton

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• holding that “the spontaneity of the statement negatives the likelihood of conscious misrepresentation by the declarant and provides the necessary circumstantial guarantee of trustworthiness to justify the introduction of the evidence”
• to qualify as a spontaneous statement, the statement must be made without the declarant first engaging in reflective thought

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