Skip to main content  Example: Excited utterance  Vanessa was
walking down street and suddenly fell to the ground after being
stabbed by Darryl. Walter was walking down the same street,
heard Vanessa scream and turned around and saw Darryl running
away. Vanessa tells Walter that Darryl stabbed her. Under the
excited utterance exception to the hearsay rule, Vanessa's
statement to Walter would be admissible despite the fact that
the statement itself is hearsay since it is a statement that
concerns a startling event and Vanessa, the declarant, made the
statement while still under the stress of the startling event.