Opinion ID: 2206409
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Heading: Intended to Establish a Particular Fact

Text: The second requirement is that the statement must be intended to establish a particular fact. With respect to this requirement, the focus is on whether, at the time the statement was made, the witness was acting in a manner analogous to a witness at trial, describing or giving information regarding events which had previously occurred. See Davis, 547 U.S. at ___, 126 S.Ct. at 2273-74, 165 L.Ed.2d at 237 (statements in response to police questioning are nontestimonial when primary purpose of questioning is to enable police assistance to meet an ongoing emergency; responses to police questions are testimonial when there is no such ongoing emergency, and [] the primary purpose of the interrogation is to establish or prove past events potentially relevant to later criminal prosecution); Davis, 547 U.S. at ___, 126 S.Ct. at 2278, 165 L.Ed.2d at 242 (statements which, after the fact, deliberately recounted, in response to police questioning, how potentially criminal past events began and progressed, are testimonial because they do precisely what a witness does on direct examination (emphasis in original)).