Opinion ID: 1551205
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Heading: whether the complainant's statements to gomes, thornton and knapp were properly admitted into evidence

Text: The primary issue in this appeal is whether the trial court properly admitted into evidence the complainant's statements to Gomes, the police dispatcher who received the telephone call, Thornton, the police officer who initially responded to the call and interviewed the complainant, and Knapp, the emergency medical technician who treated and transported her. The trial court denied the defendant's motions in limine to preclude the admission of those statements, rejecting his claims that the statements: (1) were not spontaneous utterances admissible under § 8-3 (2) of the Connecticut Code of Evidence; and (2) were testimonial and, therefore, inadmissible under Crawford v. Washington, supra, 541 U.S. 36. We note at the outset that it is undisputed that the defendant properly preserved all of these issues for appellate review when he filed relevant motions in limine, objected again at trial, and reiterated his objection in his motion for a new trial. We begin with the defendant's evidentiary claims. [11]