Conover v. Mers

How courts have described this case

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• refusing to allow appellant to benefit from gamesmanship to preclude testimony of key prosecution witness
• where appellant waived confrontation rights, Court applied constitutional reliability standard in determining whether residual hearsay rule was met
• declarant “was still suffering under the trauma of the event when she made her statements”
• accused may not withhold “trump card” and play it on appeal if he loses at trial
• absence of suggestive questioning, knowledge “not within the ken” of child

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).