Goodwine v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• observing that the declarant made the statement in question “while ‘[the defendant] was hitting [him]’ and he was ‘angry and upset’” (second alteration in original)
• admitting excited utterance based in part on the declarant’s “fast,” “elevated” tone
• finding no error in admitting, as an excited utterance, a statement to a police officer who asked the assault victim what had happened when the statement occurred two to three minutes after the victim called 911 and was made in a “fast” and “elevated” voice
• finding no error in admitting, as an excited utterance, a statement to a police officer who asked the assault victim what had happened when the statement occurred two to three minutes after the victim called 911 and was made in a “fast” and “elevated” voice

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).