excited utterance - Legal Definition
n
An
exclamation made at the moment of an accident or other unexpected and
disturbing event, considered under the rules of evidence to be likely to be
truthful because of the urgency of the surrounding circumstances and,
therefore, an exception to the hearsay rule. See also hearsay.
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