Justice v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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7 state decisions

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1. “"... Defendant cites as authority Bruton v. United States, 391 U.S. 123 , 88 S.Ct. 1620 , 20 L.Ed.2d 476 , wherein the United States Supreme Court held that it was prejudicial error to admit a co-defendant's confession that implicating [sic] defendant at a joint trial even though the trial court gave instructions that confession could only be used against co-defendant. "Although we are of the opinion that the trial court should have granted a severance, but because of the overwhelming evidence of defendant's guilt that the same does not constitute fundamental error. In Schneble v. Florida, 405 U.S. 427 , 92 S.Ct. 1056 , 31 L.Ed.2d 340 , the court stated: `Having concluded that petitioner's confession was considered by the jury, we must determine on the basis of "our own reading of the record and on what seems to us to have been the probable impact ... on the minds of an average jury," Harrington v. California, supra, 395 U.S. 250, at 254 , 89 S.Ct. 1726, at 1728 , 23 L.Ed.2d 284, at 288 , whether Snell's admissions were sufficiently prejudicial to petitioner so as to require reversal. In Bruton , the Court pointed out that "[a] defendant is entitled to a fair trial but not a perfect one." 391 U.S. at 135 , 88 S.Ct. 1620, at 1627 , 20 L.Ed.2d at 484 , quoting Lutwak v. United States, 344 U.S. 604, 619 , 73 S.Ct. 481, 490 , 97 L.Ed. 593, 604 (1953). Thus, unless there is a reasonable possibility that the improperly admitted evidence contributed to the conviction, reversal is no”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Harris v. State · Wright v. State