United States v. Woodfolk

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the trial court’s discretionary decision was not clearly erroneous
• affirming the admission of statements where declarant was scared of her boyfriend because he owned a gun and would not let her leave
• considering only whether there was sufficient evidence that an exciting event had occurred, not whether declarant’s powers of reflection were overcome by that event
• ―[P]reponderance of the evidence is the most commonly accepted standard of proof for determining the admissibility of evidence.‖

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).