Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 3/21/1994

Commonwealth v. Crawford

Citations

629 N.E.2d 1332
417 Mass. 358
1994 Mass. LEXIS 149

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power is “rarely exercised, and is exercised only in response to a serious and obvious error”
where victim’s testimony was admitted as hearsay in order to spare her trauma of reliving experience, no missing witness instruction warranted
child’s statement concerning her mother’s murder by child’s father, made up to five hours after homicide, but at “the first safe opportunity,” qualified as spontaneous exclamation
“when an extrajudicial statement is offered in court for its truth, the proponent of the statement may be required to establish that the declarant had personal knowledge of the information contained in the statement”
hours after killing, four year old child remained under stress of event
child's statement made five hours after exciting cause correctly admitted

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Judges: Wilkins, Abrams, O'Connor, Greaney

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