In seeking to apply the standard for constitutional errors, Stewart had a point: because the district court’s ruling deprived him of the chance to rebut Robert’s silver platter statement, he was ...

WASHINGTON — When a hearsay statement is erroneously admitted in a criminal trial, what evidence should appellate courts consider — and under what standard — to ...

Harmless error is one of the most frequently invoked doctrines in appellate law—and one of the least scrutinized. It was designed as a tool of restraint, preventing ...

Debra Headen holds a picture of her grandson, Deonte Baber. The testimony came nine days into the murder trial that would send Deonte Baber to prison for much of his life — testimony that was ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. In a per curiam opinion, the Court today dismissed the petition for certiorari in Vasquez v. United States as improvidently ...

Maryland’s top court reaffirmed the decades-old standard for determining whether a trial court‘s error during a criminal case was harmless in an opinion issued ...

"Every other time, for every reason under the sun—it won't be helpful, there's other information out there, it'll be too stressful—the courts have found ways to evade these (interviews)," Samuel ...

On April 15, 2020, Minnesota became the latest state to enact the “Harmless Error” rule into law.[1] The new law relaxes traditional formalities that govern the execution of wills and other will ...

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[JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] ruled [opinion, PDF] in a per curiam opinion Tuesday in Hedgpeth v. Pulido [Cornell LII ...

Courts generally require a decedent’s will to satisfy specific, codified formalities for the will to be admitted to probate. With slight variation, the requirements for executing a valid will—writing, ...

[JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website] heard oral arguments [day call, PDF] Wednesday in Vasquez v. United States [transcript; JURIST report] on whether the US Court of Appeals for the ...