Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 12/29/1978

State v. Williams

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395 A.2d 1158
1978 Me. LEXIS 769

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holding that a victim’s out-of-court statement that she was scared because an assailant had been chasing her was' inadmissible under Rule 803(3) because her statement was “tantamount to remembering the prior conduct of [the assailant] threatening her with harm”
no evidence that a victim's statements that a man was chasing her was sufficiently contemporaneous
victim’s previous statement to friend that she was afraid because her assailant was chasing her inadmissible “for such fear is tantamount to remembering the prior conduct of [assailant] threatening her with harm”

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Judges: McKusick, Pomer-Oy, Wernick, Archibald, Godfrey, Nichols, Delahanty

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