To qualify as an excited utterance under the hearsay exception created by Federal Rule of Evidence 803(2) or a comparable State rule, a statement need not be contemporaneous with the startling event or condition to which the statement relates: the statement may be made after the startling event or condition.

Contributed in 2009 by Peter Tillers
Last edited in 2010 by David Gold
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