308 Pa. Super. 370 - Commonwealth v. Nicholson’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
February 1985
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Mapp v. Ohio · Parker v. Randolph · Idaho Sheet Metal Works, Inc. v. Wirtz · Commonwealth v. Story · Commonwealth v. Allen
Most-quoted passages
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“The right to a fair trial is not, it has been properly said, the right to a perfect trial. Commonwealth v. McQuaid, 273 Pa.Super. 600 , 417 A.2d 1210 (1980); Commonwealth v. Grimm, 249 Pa.Super. 441 , 378 A.2d 377 (1977). In almost every trial, error will occur, and it would be intolerable to require that a trial be repeated, and re-repeated, until no error occurred. Accordingly, the question is not whether there was error, but whether the error was so serious as to deprive the defendant of his right to a fair trial. See, e.g., Commonwealth v. Snopek, 200 Pa.Super. 455 , 190 A.2d 161 , cert. denied, 375 U.S. 933 [ 84 S.Ct. 338 , 11 L.Ed.2d 265 ] (1963); Commonwealth v. Harris, 195 Pa.Super. 606 , 171 A.2d 850 (1961).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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