Willard McCarley v. Bennie Kelly

OPINION

BERNICE BOUIE DONALD, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from the district court’s denial of Petitioner Willard McCar-le/s petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. McCarley argued in his petition that the Ohio Court of Appeals unreasonably applied clearly established Sixth Amendment law by allowing a child psychologist to read into evidence the testimonial hearsay statements of a three-and-a-half-year-old de-clarant, where the declarant was not subject to any prior cross-examination. The district court held that although the Ohio state courts unreasonably applied…