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GALWAY, J. The defendant, Christopher Legere, was convicted following a jury trial in Superior Court (McGuire, J.) of the second degree murder of John Denoncourt. See RSA 630:1-b, I(a), I(b) (2007). He appeals, arguing that the trial court erred in admitting the testimony of various witnesses. We affirm.

BROCK, C.J. The defendant, Chad Evans, was convicted of reckless second-degree murder, see RSA 630:1-b (1996), five counts of second-degree assault, see RSA 631:2 (1996), endangering the welfare of a minor, see RSA 639:3, I (1996), and simple assault, see RSA 631:2-a (1996), following the death of twenty-one-month-old Kassidy Bortner, the daughter of his girlfriend, Amanda Bortner. He appeals, arguing that: (1) the Superior Court (T. Nadeau, J.) erroneously gave the jury a false exculpatory statement instruction; (2) the evidence on the second-degree murder charge was insufficient because it failed to eliminate the conclusion that Kassidy’s babysitter, Jeffrey Marshall, killed her; and (3) the court erroneously admitted various of Amanda’s statements under the excited utterance exception to the hearsay rule. See N.H. R. Ev. 803(2). We affirm.

The State seeks to consolidate one simple assault charge, in which the State alleges the defendant choked Amanda Bortner, with the second degree murder charge, the two first degree assault charges and the six second degree assault charges in which the State alleges the defendant abused Kassidy Bortner. The defendant objects.

The defendant, George Knickerbocker, Jr., also known as Nicky Robbins, is charged with one count of Second Degree Murder in connection with the death of a one-month-old infant, Adam Robbins, in February 1983. The defendant moves to dismiss the charge for lack of speedy indictment, and the State objects. The Court held an evidentiary hearing over three days on this matter, subsequent to which it directed the parties to file written legal arguments. Upon review of the parties’ arguments, the testimony and evidence submitted at the hearing, and the relevant law, the Court finds and rules as follows.