United States v. Mejia-Valez

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• holding that defendant could not use the residual exception to admit hearsay statements from an available declarant when the covered exception required unavailability
• confirming that both 911 calls in question were within two minutes of the shooting that they described
• confirming that both 911 calls in question were within two minutes of the shooting that they described
• stating that even if the statements at issue were not admissible under the present sense impression exception, they were still admissible as excited utterances
• admitting 911 emergency service calls made 3 minutes and 16 minutes after shooting as present sense impressions
• admitting 911 call made 16 minutes after the first call reporting the events because call was “made without any motivation for fabrication” and because it “was consistent with [the declarant’s] first call and with the other testimony in the case”

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