technical errors
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 326 U.S. 607 - Bollenbach v. United States · 1946Most cited · 2,072 citing opinions
The 'technical errors' against which Congress protected jury verdicts are of the kind which led some judges to trivialize law by giving all legal prescriptions equal potency... Deviations from formal correctness do not touch the substance of the standards by which guilt is determined in our courts, and it is these that Congress rendered harmless.
How often courts cite the cases defining “technical errors”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “technical errors” — 2,983 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1939–1946
- ORIGINAL
that Act was intended to prevent matters concerned with the mere etiquette of trials and with the formalities and minutiae of procedure from touching the merits of a verdict