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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 late last week.
Constitutional – Continuance Denied – Harmless Error – General Intent Crime The prosecutor had assured defense counsel that the state would not use recordings of defendant’s jailhouse phone calls at trial, so counsel and his investigator focused on other elements of the defense. But the evening before jury selection started, the prosecutor told defense counsel ...
In United States v. Percoco, the Second Circuit (Raggi, Chin, Sullivan) the Second Circuit affirmed the convictions of several defendants involved in the so-called “Buffalo Billion”...
Attorney former prosecutor randy zelen. have you ever heard of gladiator. gladiator-style fights and that they're betting on them? >> only on "game of thrones." so the answer is no. i'd like to think i'm not being naive when i say that. >> when you hear about 3,000 cases -- and we were talking during the commercial break. you were referencing the fact that so many of these have gone through the system in a vacuum at the time. now trying to look at these cases with different eyes how do you do that? >> well let's not lose sight of the fact we're always talking about evidence. merely because a p...
>> wait a second. o.j. is in jail in prison now because he find nicole's real killer. [ laughter ] >> gregg: i covered the trial of the nine months that it went on. i've never seen such overwhelming evidence. >> one very important point. as a former prosecutor, harmless error. in the event that o.j. can move forward. you can say, you know what, no. >> gregg: if only they had handled the case it would have been so different. next time. >> heather: still to come today, tomorrow night's debate between president obama and governor romney is all about foreign policy. coming up, from libya to afghan...