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Perry v. State

Citations

  • 956 N.E.2d 41
  • 2011 Ind. App. LEXIS 1611
  • 2011 WL 3666715

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that rape victim’s statements to sexual assault nurse were nontestimonial because their primary purpose was to furnish and receive emergency medical and psychological care
  • concluding that statements of assault victim to forensic nurse regarding the identity of her attacker were, inter alia, “relevant to any psychological counseling for domestic abuse”
  • concluding that any error in the admission of nonmaterial statements that may have exceeded the scope of the medical diagnosis exception and were left unredacted was harmless
  • holding that evidence was sufficient to uphold strangulation conviction upon a showing that victim had “several abrasions to her neck” after assailant wrapped his hands around her neck
  • concluding that the victim’s statements indicating she was grabbed around the neck and strangled were pertinent to the diagnosis and treatment of her injuries and admissible under Ind. Evidence Rule 803(4)
  • holding that “N.D.’s statements indicating she was ‘grabbed . . . around the neck’ and strangled were pertinent to the diagnosis and treatment of her physical injuries,” and were admissible under Ind. Evidence Rule 803(4)

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Judges: Vaidik, Kirsch, Mathias

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