State v. Mateer

How courts have described this case

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

• noting witnesses to assault “hysterical” and tearful; officer’s questions merely anticipatory of their condition
• characterizing statements as excited utterances where the “questions merely anticipated excited descriptions of the incident which the complainant and her girlfriend were bound to volunteer to the officer in any event”
• declarant had to be calmed down to give a statement; stress still dominant even though declarant could act “rationally”
• similar consideration necessary by trial court in determining admissibility of hearsay evidence under Iowa Rule of Evidence 803(2)
• court properly considered behavior which led to charges against defendant, but would also have supported conviction of more serious offense
• cases listed in which time spans from one to fourteen hours did not preclude admission of excited utterances

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).