God's Storehouse Topeka Church v. United States

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How courts have described this case

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• concluding that there was no abuse of discretion in admitting statement as excited utterances where declarant “spoke quickly, was out of breath, and sounded scared and nervous”
• involving testimony by a 911 operator who repeated what a woman who “sounded very upset” told her after someone had shot at her
• “[A]lthough there was some evidence that [defendant] had been drinking, the evidence would not support a finding that he was intoxicated.”
• “The lapse of 15 to 30 minutes between an exciting incident and a statement does not render the statement inadmissible.”
• “Bad acts that form the factual setting of the crime in issue or that form an integral part of the crime charged are not part of Rule 404(b)’s coverage.” (cleaned up)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).