The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.
We agree that the prosecution failed in its burden to establish that the hearsay statements in issue fell within the "excited utterances" exception, by showing that declarant's several statements, beginning some time after a stabbing and continuing through his hospitalization, were made under the influence of the event and stilled his reflective powers...
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