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“Constitutional error does not require automatic reversal. On the contrary, an otherwise valid conviction need not be set aside if the error is harmless.”
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People v. Stanley
Assuming, without deciding, the court’s ruling was error (see People v. Fierro, supra, 1 Cal.4th at p. 241; but see Robinson v. Maynard (10th Cir. 1987) 829 F.2d 1501 , 1505, cert, denied 502 U.S. 970 [ 116 L.Ed.2d 463 , 112 S.Ct. 445 ]), it clearly was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.
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Andre Jones v. Thomas F. Page, Warden, Menard Correctional Center, and James Ryan, Attorney General of the State of Illinois
constitutional error does not require automatic reversal. on the contrary, an otherwise valid conviction need not be set aside if the error is harmless.
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Ex Parte Bush
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See Ex parte Lawhorn , 581 So.2d 1179 (Ala. 1991), cert. denied , 502 U.S. 970 , 112 S.Ct. 445 , 116 L.Ed.2d 463 (1991).
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Bush v. State
See Ex parte Lawhorn, 581 So.2d 1179 (Ala.1991), cert. denied, 502 U.S. 970 , 112 S.Ct. 445 , 116 L.Ed.2d 463 (1991).
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Broadnax v. State
See also Henry v. Wainwright, 721 F.2d 990, 995 (5th Cir.1983), cert. denied, 466 U.S. 993 , 104 S.Ct. 2374 , 80 L.Ed.2d 846 (1984) (wherein the court, in holding harmless the trial court's failure to instruct that aggravating circumstances must be found beyond a reasonable doubt, stated that `for the failure to give the instruction to be harmless, the evidence must be so overwhelming that the omission beyond a reasonable doubt did not contribute to the verdict')." Lawhorn v. State, 581 So.2d 1159, 1176-77 (Ala.Cr.App.1990), aff'd, 581 So.2d 1179 (Ala.), cert. denied, 502 U.S. 970 , 112 S.Ct. …
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Whitehead v. State
See also Rule 9.3, Ala.R.Crim.P.' Taylor v. State, 666 So.2d 36, 66 (Ala.Cr.App. 1994), aff'd, 666 So.2d 73 (Ala.1995), cert. denied, 516 U.S. 1120 , 116 S.Ct. 928 , 133 L.Ed.2d 856 (1996). `Alabama appellate courts have time and again refused to hold it an abuse of discretion on the part of a trial court to allow a sheriff, police chief, or similarly situated person who will later testify to remain in the courtroom during trial.' Ex parte Lawhorn, 581 So.2d 1179, 1181 (Ala.), cert. denied, 502 U.S. 970 , 112 S.Ct. 445 , 116 L.Ed.2d 463 (1991) (citing several Alabama cases holding to same effe…
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Harper
v.
United States
v.
United States
No. 91-5573.
Supreme Court of the United States.
Nov 18, 1991.
Published
Citer courts: Eleventh Circuit (1) · Seventh Circuit (1)
C. A. 5th Cir. Certiorari denied.