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| | Dorothy F. Marsil, Jean Montoya, David Ross, and Louise Graham, Child Witness Policy: Law Interfacing with Social ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | The court making the trustworthiness determination, however, considers only the circumstances surrounding the making of the statement and that render the declarant particularly worthy of belief. |
 | | 803 (listing exceptions for which the availability of the declarant is immaterial for admissibility); FED. R. |
 | | Illinois, 502 U.S. 346, 349, 350 & n.1 (1992), for instance, statements made by a child sexual assault victim to her mother thirty minutes after her assault and while the child appeared "scared" and a "little hyper" were admitted under the Illinois spontaneous declaration exception, the state equivalent of the federal excited utterance exception. |
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