The harmless error doctrine – a safety net for prosecutors – has been made a little narrower by the state Supreme Court.
Jettisoning one of two parallel tests in state case law for determining when evidentiary errors at trial are so harmful that they require reversal of a defendant’s conviction, the high court unveiled a definitive standard in its en banc decision in State v. Douglas Sawyer. The ruling is to be officially released on Aug. 8.
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