Court Opinion

ID: 7564409
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-29 06:03:17.961593+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:24:14.829813
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SHORTESS, Judge,
dissenting.
The majority holds that an accomplice’s testimony can be corroborated with a prior consistent statement even though the statement is made at a suspicious time — when the accomplice had an improper and interested motive. Here, David Lewis was under arrest for attempted armed robbery and in custody at the hospital when he made a consistent statement, implicating defendant, to Loretta Carter. In my opinion, LSA-R.S. 15:496 and 497 were applicable and controlling, and the statement was inadmissible hearsay.
Accordingly, I dissent.