technical errors
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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.