Carroll v. Hoke’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “... [T]o prevail on his petition [regarding improper admission of evidence] petitioner must show that the error was so pervasive as to have denied him his constitutional right to a fundamentally fair trial____ Petitioner bears a heavy burden since evidentiary errors do not generally rise to the level of a constitutional deprivation requiring the setting aside of a conviction____ Where, as here, evidence is claimed to have been erroneously admitted, the issue becomes “whether the erroneously admitted evidence, viewed objectively in light of the entire record before the jury, was sufficiently material to provide the basis for a conviction or to remove a reasonable doubt that would have existed on the record without it.” ... Such evidence has been described as “crucial,” “critical,” or “highly significant.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 811 F. Supp. 776 - Quinones v. Meachum