369 So. 2d 310 - Cassidy v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

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1. “"The admission of improper evidence to establish an undisputed fact is harmless error. . . . Likewise the appellant's admission to Lieutenant Watkins that she had the rifle and would go get it was not error in view of the fact that she had already and very recently admitted her possession of the weapon to Investigator Culpepper. . . . Before Watkins testified the rifle had been described and identified as being the weapon stolen and the one found in the possession of the appellant. The statements the appellant made to Lieutenant Watkins were cumulative in that her possession of the rifle had already been proven by statements she made to Culpepper which not only showed possession but also guilty knowledge. *Page 850 Under these circumstances the appellant's statement that she had the rifle, even if improperly admitted because of the lack of the Miranda warnings, only constituted harmless error. . . . "The admission of incompetent evidence is harmless where the facts thereby disclosed are otherwise established by competent evidence. . . . A judgment will not be reversed because of the admission of incompetent evidence, where the other evidence, which was uncontradicted, would require the same verdict. . . . The admission of evidence which is merely cumulative of an admitted fact is error without injury to the defendant. . . ." (Citations omitted.) Cassidy v. State , 369 So.2d 310 , 312 (Ala.Cr.App. 1979).”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 488 So. 2d 13 - Dalton v. State · 447 So. 2d 838 - Inzer v. State