State v. Thomas

How courts have described this case

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• not abuse of discretion to admit statement as excited utterance where statement made six to seven hours after event
• trial court did not err in determining that statements made after a 6- to 7-hour time span qualified as excited utterances
• trial court did not err in determining that statements made after a 6- to 7-hour time span qualified as excited utterances
• trial court properly admitted excited utterance testimony where declarant made statements six to seven hours after the event and no intervening influences rendered statements unreliable

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

3 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Thomas
  Washington Supreme Court· 2004-01-29· cited 973×
• State v. Strauss
  Washington Supreme Court· 1992-07-09· cited 143×
• State v. Thomas
  Washington Supreme Court· 1988-07-07· cited 27×

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Theroff
  Washington Supreme Court· 1980-12-31· cited 180×
• State v. Mark
  Washington Supreme Court· 1980-10-09· cited 93×
• Johnston v. Ohls
  Washington Supreme Court· 1969-07-17· cited 89×
• Brewer v. Copeland
  Washington Supreme Court· 1975-11-13· cited 61×
• State v. John Doe
  Washington Supreme Court· 1986-05-22· cited 47×
• State v. Cushing
  Washington Supreme Court· 1897-09-10· cited 38×
• State v. Flett
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1985-04-16· cited 37×
• State v. Slider
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1984-09-24· cited 33×
• State v. Allen
  Washington Supreme Court· 1978-02-09· cited 28×
• State v. Woodward
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1982-06-09· cited 27×
• State v. Humphreys
  Washington Supreme Court· 1922-01-23· cited 14×