People v. Kadell’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “The defendant claims on appeal that the court erred in admitting hearsay testimony in violation of his rights under the Confrontation Clause. If the defendant preserved the issue, we'll decide whether any error requires reversal by applying the constitutional harmless error test. If he didn't, we'll decide that question by applying the plain error test. But in either scenario we'll determine de novo whether the trial court erred. Absent a finding of any error, whether the constitutional harmless error or the plain error test applies is irrelevant.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Maestas v. People

2. “whether any rational trier of fact might accept the evidence, taken as a whole and in the light most favorable to the prosecution, as sufficient to support a finding of ... guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Maestas v. People

3. “• structural error; • constitutional harmless error; • harmless error; • claims where the effect on the conviction is constitutionally material to the claim itself; • plain error ; and • cumulative error.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Maestas v. People