Greenberg v. Doctors Assocs., Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that statements accusing the defendant of starting a fire, made after the declarant awoke engulfed in flames, could not be admitted as dying declarations because they were made without personal knowledge that the defendant started fire
• explaining that the \opening the door\ doctrine of expanded relevancy allows a party \'to elicit otherwise inadmissible evidence when the opposing party has made unfair prejudicial use of related evidence.'\
• explaining that \a curative instruction may sometimes be a sufficient remedy\
• explaining that \a curative instruction may sometimes be a sufficient remedy\
• explaining that \a curative instruction may sometimes be a sufficient remedy\
• applying the Cofield analysis where defendant's testimony \open[ed] the door\ to otherwise inadmissible other crimes evidence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).