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State v. Atwood

Citations

  • 602 N.W.2d 775
  • 1999 WL 1052028

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  • holding recklessness was established where defendant was traveling at a high rate of speed and crossed into the oncoming lane of traffic before traveling over several lawns and flipping
  • upholding a statement as an excited utterance made “at most two and one-half hours” after the event
  • stating, in discussing the fifth prong, that “[t]he subject matter of the statement was clearly probative”
  • finding statement made at the hospital two or two and one-half hours after a serious accident resulting in the death of two children was an excited utterance
  • setting forth criteria for determining when a statement is an excited utterance
  • setting forth criteria for determining when a statement is an excited utterance

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Judges: McGiverin, Larson, Carter, Cady, Andreasen

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