494 So. 2d 213 - Long v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
April 2000
most recently cited
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Hasting · 491 So. 2d 1129 - State v. DiGuilio · 443 So. 2d 955 - State v. Murray · Russ v. State · 369 So. 2d 943 - David v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“The test is not a sufficiency-of-the-evidence, a correct result, a not clearly wrong, a substantial evidence, a more probable than not, a clear and convincing, or even an overwhelming evidence test. Harmless error is not a device for the appellate court to substitute itself for the trier-of-fact by simply weighing the evidence. The focus is on the effect of the error on the trier-of-fact. The question is whether there is a reasonable possibility that the error affected the verdict. The burden to show the error was harmless must remain on the state. If the appellate court cannot say beyond a reasonable doubt that the error did not affect the verdict, then the error is by definition harmful.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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