Utah Supreme Court· 12/20/1995

State v. Smith

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909 P.2d 236
280 Utah Adv. Rep. 6
1995 Utah LEXIS 87
1995 WL 755117

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holding that a present sense impression exception requires the statement to be “strictly contemporaneous” with the event
holding that a present sense impression exception requires the statement to be “strictly contemporaneous” with the event
holding that victim’s statements to a child abuse investigator within three hours of assault were admissible where victim was bleeding, in pain, and in a “dissociative state” of “psychic shock”
noting that victim of a sexual assault suffered substantial bodily injury when she was still bleeding two hours after the assault occurred and required surgery
noting that rule 803(1)'s \'present sense impression'\ exception requires statements to be \strictly contemporaneous\ with the event or condition described
noting that child rape victim suffered substantial bodily injury when girl was bleeding from assault two hours after it occurred and was required to undergo an hour-long surgery to repair her injuries

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Judges: Stewart, Howe, Durham, Stewart'S, Zimmerman, Russon, Howe'S

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