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Williams v. State

Citations

  • 714 So. 2d 462
  • 1997 WL 799591

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that the excited utterance exception to the hearsay rule, section 90.801(2
  • holding 911 tape identifying boyfriend as assailant admissible as an excited utterance
  • sustaining convictions based on out-of-court statements admitted as excited utterances even though the declarants’ testimony at trial contradicted those statements
  • sustaining convictions based 2 Jones also relied on another case, Dickey v. State, 147 Tex. Crim. 588, 183 S.W.2d 469 (1944
  • observing “[a]s has become lamentably common in cases of domestic violence, [the victim’s] testimony before the jury was diametrically contrary to her original statements to the police”
  • tape recorded 911 calls made by victim and her son were admissible as excited utterances

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Judges: Jorgenson and Sorondo, Jj., and Barkdull, Senior Judge

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