Winzer v. Hall

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that excited utterances are “firmly rooted exceptions to hearsay” and that the circumstances under which they are made “provide sufficient assurance that [they are] trustworthy” (quotation marks and citation omitted)
• “State 17 court rulings on the admissibility of evidence generally fall outside the scope of federal 18 habeas relief, which is designed only to remedy violations of federal law.”
• “Violation of the Confrontation Clause is trial error subject to harmless-error analysis . . . because its effect can be quantitatively assessed in the context of other evidence presented to the jury.” (citations and internal quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).