Commonwealth v. Sneed

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• holding that where a police officer related the contents of a radio call that prompted his trip to the crime scene, such testimony was not hearsay because it was introduced solely to explain how the officer came to be at the scene
• holding that where a police officer related the contents of a radio call that prompted his trip to the crime scene, such testimony was not hearsay because it was introduced solely to explain how the officer came to be at the scene
• holding Commonwealth may introduce polygraph results to rehabilitate a witness subsequent to defense counsel’s credibility attack
• allowing hearsay testimony on content of police radio call offered to explain police officer’s course of conduct
• appellant failed to demonstrate actual prejudice from the unavailability of witnesses because he could not show how witnesses would have tended to exculpate him
• police officer’s testimony describing radio call that prompted his trip to crime scene was not hearsay because it was introduced solely to explain why he went to scene

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