Ohio Supreme Court· 6/8/1988

State v. Wallace

Citations

37 Ohio St. 3d 87
524 N.E.2d 466
1988 Ohio LEXIS 183

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affirming admission of statements as excited utterances even though there was a 15-hour interval between the startling occurrence and the utterance and even though the declarant was unconscious for part of that time
upholding the admission of a five-year-old girl’s statement as an excited utterance when she made the statement 15 hours after she was assaulted because the girl was unconscious and when she woke up, she made statements without prompting
\[S]tatements made in response to questions may still be under the stress of the event.\
“[Statements made in response to questions may still be under the stress of the event.”

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Judges: Brown, Douglas, Holmes, Locher, Moyer, Sweeney, Wright

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