PEOPLE v. STRAIGHT

Docket Nos. 76317, 76318, (Calendar No. 5).

430 Mich. 418 (1988)

424 N.W.2d 257

PEOPLE v. STRAIGHT

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided June 1, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General, William A. Forsyth, Prosecuting Attorney, and Timothy K. McMorrow, Chief Appellate Attorney, for the people.

James R. Rinck for the defendant.


BOYLE, J.

We are asked in this appeal from defendant's conviction of criminal sexual conduct to decide whether a child's statements, made approximately one month after the event, as related by her parents, were properly admitted as substantive evidence under MRE 803(2) — the excited utterance exception to the hearsay rule. The statements concerned the details of the assault and the identity of her attacker.

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