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Miller v. Crown Amusements, Inc.
District Court, S.D. Georgia (1993) | 821 F. Supp. 703; 39 Fed. R. Serv. 142; 1993 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 7110; 1993 WL 178704
TL;DR: An unidentified witness's 911 call describing a hit-and-run was admitted into evidence. The court found the call, made minutes after the event, qualified as a "present sense impression" exception to the hearsay rule, despite the caller's anonymity.
Legal Significance: This case illustrates how circumstantial evidence can satisfy the requirements of the present sense impression exception (FRE 803(1)), particularly the declarant's personal perception and the statement's contemporaneity, even when the declarant is unidentified.