30 Va. App. 378 - Williams v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
December 2005
most recently cited
8 state decisions
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““When a trial court admits evidence in violation of the United States Constitution, the court’s error is a constitutional one.” Williams v. Commonwealth, 30 Va.App. 378, 383 , 517 S.E.2d 246, 249 (1999) (citing Jenkins v. Commonwealth, 254 Va. 333, 336 , 492 S.E.2d 131, 132 (1997)). “Before a federal constitutional error can be held harmless, the court must be able to declare a belief that it was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.” Id. (internal quotations and citations omitted). “We decide whether the erroneous admission of evidence was sufficiently prejudicial to require reversal on the basis of our own reading of the record and on what seems to us to have been the probable impact on the fact finder.” Id. at 384 , 517 S.E.2d 246 , 517 S.E.2d at 249 (internal quotations and citations omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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