United States v. Vernon Joy

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• deciding that declarations prompted by questions of “what happened?” and “who did it?” did not destroy their spontaneity
• holding 2 that evidence is inadmissible “only if in the proper exercise of the trial court’s discretion it finds 3 that the witness could not have actually perceived or observed that which he testifies to”
• finding prosecutor's remark appropriate when viewed in proper context even though it was literally not true
• finding fact that declarant was answering questions does not indicate that he was not excited when he provided the answers
• finding no error when a district court admitted evidence that the defendant committed a burglary immediately before his arrest, thereby providing a motive for gun possession, making his possession more likely
• upholding the admission of an excited utterance made several minutes after the appellant’s threat

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