Hearsay exceptions for statements about the mental or physical states or conditions of persons

Cf. United States v. Peppers, 302 F.3d 120, 137-139 (3d Cir. 2002) (vacating convictions for first degree murder and other related crimes because the trial court erroneously refused to admit victim Drake's statements....Federal Rule of Evidence 804(b)(2) or a comparable State rule creates a hearsay exception in a prosecution for homicide or in a civil action or proceeding, for a statement by a declarant made when the declarant believes that his or her death is imminent, about the cause or circumstances of what the declarant believes to be his or her impending death.

United States v. Jennings, 496 F.3d 344, 349-350 (4th Cir. 2007) (upholding trial court's admission of testimony of two passengers [about the statements of the 13-year old girl on what had occurred on the flight] as excited....A statement falls within the hearsay exception created by Federal Rule of Evidence 803(2) or a comparable State rule for excited utterances, only if the declarant (the maker of the statement) was under the stress of the startling event or condition when he or she made the statement that relates to that startling event or condition.

United States v. McLee, 436 F.3d 751, 759-760 (7th Cir. 2006) (upholding trial court'a admission of witness's testimony about the conspiracy because it completed the story on the "genesis" of the conspiracy and "nature" of the relationship between the accused and the witness).Other crimes, wrongs, or acts are admissible and do not violate the prohibition against the use of character to show conduct if such acts are admissible to show the context of an event at issue at trial or to tell the full story or an intelligible story of a series of events at issue at trial.