Dora Ann Swain v. Commonwealth

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• examining the trial record and context of the statement to “determine . . . the purpose for which the Commonwealth offered the statement”
• examining the “context” of the statement to “determine . . . the purpose for which the Commonwealth offered the statement”
• “Determining whether a statement is offered to prove the truth or falsity of the matter asserted requires an analysis of the purpose for which the statement is offered into evidence.”
• “The jury’s sentence is subject to the judge’s review after considering at the sentencing hearing various mitigating, extenuating, or even aggravating circumstances.”
• a drug purchaser’s statement, “a twenty,” was not hearsay because the Commonwealth did not offer the statement for its truth, but to explain and give meaning to the defendant’s statements, “what do you want,” and “just a minute”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).