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Utah Supreme Court· 4/19/1972

State v. Sanders

Citations

  • 496 P.2d 270
  • 27 Utah 2d 354
  • 1972 Utah LEXIS 988

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  • statements that subject the declarant to criminal punishment are admissible “because experience teaches that it is unlikely that [a person] would so declare unless it were true”
  • the district court may consider “various possible motivations” for the declarant to make the hearsay statement that cut against the application of the statement-against-interest exception, including “concern for assisting the defendant”

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Judges: Crockett, Callister, Tuckett, Henriod, Ellett

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