456 So. 2d 529 - Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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12 state decisions

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1. “As for the first issue, the officers' testimony as to the contents of the dispatch was allowed to establish that the statements were made, not that they were true. It is a common sense way to explain why the officers were at the particular place at the particular time, their purpose in being there and what they did as a result. We hope this will eliminate any practice, should it exist, of excluding similar testimony in future cases, as jurors have the right to expect to hear a logical sequence, which begins at the beginning.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 494 So. 2d 270 - Freeman v. State · 620 So. 2d 180 - Conley v. State