JASON SMITH v. STATE OF FLORIDA

How courts have described this case

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• standard of appellate review for a district court's ruling on the proper scope of cross-examination
• “Wright has no effect on hearsay analysis when there is no Confrontation Clause issue.”
• “[a] declarant’s young age is a factor that may substantially lessen the degree of skepticism with which we view [her] motives, and mitigates in favor of the trustworthiness and admissibility of her declarations” [internal quotation marks omitted]
• “Given the strength of other factors, . . . we do not think the elapsed time between . . . [the] incident[s] of abuse and her initial statement . . . outweighs the other indicia of trustworthiness in this case.”

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