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Must statement be spontaneous?: To qualify as a statement...

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To qualify as a statement of present sense impression for purposes of the hearsay exception by that name, must the statement be spontaneous?

Contributed in 2009 by Peter Tillers

Last edited in 2009 by Joel Friedman

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