Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
Seconds before seeing the defendant holding the victim down on a bed, his hands near her throat and her head pushed up against the wall, the victim's sister heard her say, "Larry, get off of me. I can't breathe." Under these circumstances, the court properly admitted testimony by the victim's sister as to the victim's statement as a present sense impression exception to the hearsay rule. The statement was spontaneous and contemporaneous...
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