California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Soto, A129474 (Cal. App. 2012):
same is true of the statements pertaining to identification. The primary purpose of the police in asking [the victim] to identify whether the detained individuals were the perpetrators, an identification made within five minutes of the arrival of the police, was to determine whether the perpetrators had been apprehended and the emergency situation had ended or whether the perpetrators were still at large so as to pose an immediate threat." (Ibid.) (See also People v. Johnson, supra, 150 Cal.App.4th at p. 1479 [an officer who found a man at a residence with blood on his hands and a woman with a bloody, broken nose and asked the woman what happened was interrupting an ongoing emergency, and her statement to him was nontestimonial].)
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