80 Wash. 2d 19 - State v. MacK’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
30 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 73 Wash. 2d 616 - State v. Martin · 27 Wash. 2d 336 - State v. Britton · 40 Wash. 2d 18 - State v. Goebel · 76 Wash. 2d 449 - State v. Gefeller · 73 Wash. 2d 67 - State v. Miles
Most-quoted passages
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“A prejudicial error may be defined as one which affects or presumptively affects the final results of the trial. . . . When the appellate court is unable to say from the record before it whether the defendant would or would not have been convicted but for the error committed in the trial court, then the error may not be deemed harmless, and the defendant's right to a fair trial requires that the verdict be set aside and that he be granted a new trial. But, where the defendant's guilt is conclusively proven by competent evidence, and no other rational conclusion can be reached except that the defendant is guilty as charged, then the conviction should not be set aside because of unsubstantial errors.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“A defendant must be tried for the offenses charged in the indictment. Evidence of unrelated crimes may not be admitted, except where such evidence shows motive, intent, absence of accident or mistake, a common scheme or plan, identity, or is somehow relevant and necessary to prove an essential ingredient of the crime charged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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