Strong v. Maggio

How later courts describe this case

• holding that to remand an exhausted claim on grounds it was combined with a frivolous unexhausted claim was a disservice to the state courts
• four-year-old’s statement to nurses and police an hour and a half after sexual assault
• “the determination of whether the admission of the hearsay statements violated Haggin’s Sixth Amendment right to confrontation is a question of law, which involves the application of legal principles to historical facts”
• no interest in the continuing transport of contraband deriving from a joint venture