Tomanek v. State

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that the present state of mind exception is intended to apply to “immediate reaction[s],” not statements made after the declarant has “ample opportunity to reflect on the situation”
• defendant’s statement of belief about the victim’s age, made the day after meeting the victim online, was not contemporaneous with the defendant’s then-existing state of mind when he met the victim
• defendant's statement of belief about the victim's age, made the day after meeting the victim online, was not contemporaneous with the defendant's then-existing state of mind when he met the victim
• defendant’s statement of belief about the victim’s age, made the day after meeting the victim online, was not contemporaneous with the defendant’s then-existing state of mind when he met the victim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).