Felix Sanchez-Suarez v. State

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• concluding that a “911 call and recorded statements occurred with sufficient contemporaneity” where the caller had time to leave an apartment in which an event took place before calling 911 to describe the event
• concluding that a “911 call and recorded statements occurred with sufficient contemporaneity” where the caller had time to leave an apartment in which an event took place before calling 911 to describe the event
• noting that 911 calls that are placed with “sufficient contemporaneity” are admissible under the present sense impression hearsay exception
• admitting 911 call as it was “placed with sufficient contemporaneity to the underlying events” (citing United States v Hawkins, 59 F.3d 723, 730 (8th Cir. 1995) (same))
• rationale of present sense impression exception is that “‘substantial contemporaneity of event and statement minimizes unreliability due to defective recollection or conscious fabrication’”

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