chapman-standard

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-5440 Roman Andreyevich Glukhoy v. California California 2023-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review chapman-standard chapman-v-california criminal-procedure harmless-error jury-instructions legal-theory prejudice prejudicial-error standard-of-review 1. When a defendant is convicted after a trial court instructs a jury on two theories of guilt, one of which is legally correct and one legally incorr…
21-5318 Beatrice Munyenyezi v. United States First Circuit 2021-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 brecht-standard chapman-standard federal-procedure habeas-corpus harmless-error jury-instruction post-conviction-relief supreme-court-review When reviewing a habeas corpus claim under 28 U.S.C. §2255, where the court is considering for the first time whether an erroneous jury instruction on…
20-826 Mike Brown, Acting Warden v. Ervine Davenport Sixth Circuit 2020-12-18 Judgment Issued Amici (3)Relisted (2) 28-usc-2254(d)(1) brecht-test chapman-standard chapman-test constitutional-error federal-habeas-court federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-review state-court-adjudication In Brecht v. Abrahamson, 507 U.S. 619 (1993), the Court held that the test for determining whether a constitutional error was harmless on habeas revie…
19-7208 Gbenga Benson Ogundele v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP chapman-standard confrontation-clause due-process evidence fair-trial federal-rule-of-evidence federal-rules-of-evidence government-evidence sixth-amendment Whether voluminous amounts of substantive evidence containing prejudicial opinions of government agents held to be erroneously admitted under Federal …
19-642 Shawntele Cortez Jackson v. Kathy Litteral Sixth Circuit 2019-11-19 Denied Response Waived brecht-standard chapman-standard esparza-standard habeas-corpus habeas-review harmless-error self-defense sixth-circuit 1. Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in applying the Esparza harmless error standard, instead of the Brecht harmless error standard on federal habeas re…
19-5232 Ricky Ray Malone v. Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-07-18 Denied IFP chapman-standard chapman-v-california constitutional-violation criminal-procedure cumulative-error cumulative-error-analysis federal-law harmless-error harmlessness-review plain-error plain-error-review prejudice prejudice-component 1. Where plain error review includes a built-in prejudice component, is subjecting an acknowledged plain error to a second round of harmlessness revie…
18-9382 Joshua Wofford v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review chapman-standard chapman-v-california constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-construction harmless-error prosecutorial-evidence standard-of-review Whether the federal court of appeals, while determining whether potential constitutional error was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt pursuant to the …
18-298 Michael Vernon Beaty, Jr. v. South Carolina South Carolina 2018-09-07 Denied Response Waived chapman-standard chapman-v-california constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process due-process,criminal-procedure,constitutional-law, due-process,criminal-procedure,harmless-error,chap harmless-error judicial-review right-to-respond standard-of-review supreme-court-standard I. Does the South Carolina Supreme Court's standard for determining harmless constitutional error depart from this Court's mandates in Chapman v. Ca…