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4 canonical passages across 4 cases, quoted by 48 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side — they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Cooper v. State.

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1 Cooper v. State Anchor
ind · 2006
green “a fair trial impossible or constitutes clearly blatant violations of basic and elementary principles of due process . . . presenting an undeniable and substantial potential for harm.” 17
2 Bruce Ryan v. State of Indiana
ind · 2014
green “fundamental error is meant to permit appellate courts a means to correct the most egregious and blatant trial errors that otherwise would have been procedurally barred, not to provide a second bite at the apple for defense counsel who ignorantly, carelessly, or strategically fai…” 17
3 Hoglund v. State
ind · 2012
green “harm is not shown by the fact that the defendant was ultimately convicted; rather harm is found when error is so prejudicial as to make a fair trial impossible.” 10
4 Hobson v. State
ind · 1996
green “a prosecutor, in final arguments, can 'state and discuss the evidence and reasonable inferences derivable therefrom so long as there is no implication of personal knowledge that is independent of the evidence.” 4

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