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Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 12/27/2013

Commonwealth v. Murray

Citations

  • 83 A.3d 137
  • 623 Pa. 506
  • 2013 WL 6831852
  • 2013 Pa. LEXIS 3266

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

  • concluding that a victim’s statement “they’re going to kill me” was an excited utterance -6- J-S57012-15 in part because, “[a] threat upon one’s life is certainly a startling event[]’”
  • holding that the defendant waived his claim regarding attorney-client privilege by failing to raise it in the trial court and stating “that preservation of the specific argument in support of the ground for reversal is required for appellate review” (citation omitted)
  • reiterating that “it must be shown first, that [the declarant] had witnessed an event sufficiently startling and so close in point of time as to render her reflective thought processes inoperable” (citation omitted)
  • noting that the common law definition of an excited utterance is still applicable to Rule 803(2), but concluding that the circumstances surrounding a statement may be sufficient to establish the existence of a sufficiently startling event
  • “the circumstances surrounding the statements may be sufficient to establish the existence of a sufficiently startling event”
  • ‘[T]he same beyond a reasonable doubt measure should govern errors of state law, regardless of whether the error is of constitutional or non-constitutional magnitude.”

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Judges: Baer, Castille, Eakin, McCaffery, Saylor, Todd

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