Linney, Timothy Garrett’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. “We have long recognized that “a number of errors may be found harmful in their cumulative effect,” even if each error, considered separately, would be harmless. However, cumulative error is an independent ground for relief, separate from the underlying instances of error. A string of harmless errors does not arithmétically create reversible, cu mulative error. Instead, we look for “multiple errors [that] synergistically achieve ‘the critical mass necessary to cast a shadow upon the integrity of the verdict.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Randy Deshon Collier v. State