In an effort to cast doubt on the People's theory that this crime involved rival drug dealers, defendant offered, as a dying declaration, evidence that while en route to the hospital the deceased said to the officer, "I don't know who did this to me. I don't know nothing." After an extensive hearing outside the jury's presence, the court properly determined that this statement did not qualify as a dying declaration. At the time the statement was made, the condition of the...
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