State v. Mouzon’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Arizona v. Fulminante · Cities of Charlottesville v. Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Columbia Gas Transmission Corp. · Spencer Gifts, Inc. v. Olitsky · 9221 Associates v. Industrial State Bank · Holm v. United States
Most-quoted passages
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“[Trial errors] occur during the presentation of the case to the jury, and may therefore be quantitatively assessed in the context of other evidence presented in order to determine whether its admission was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt. Structural defects affect the entire conduct of the trial from beginning to end.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“structural defects in the constitution of the trial mechanism [] defy analysis by harmless error standards.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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