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Another Hurdle To Habeas: The Streamlined Procedures Act, Michelle Hertz
Another Hurdle To Habeas: The Streamlined Procedures Act, Michelle Hertz
Duke Law Journal
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Mostly Harmless: An Analysis Of Post-Aedpa Federal Habeas Corpus Review Of State Harmless Error Determinations, Jeffrey S. Jacobi
Mostly Harmless: An Analysis Of Post-Aedpa Federal Habeas Corpus Review Of State Harmless Error Determinations, Jeffrey S. Jacobi
Michigan Law Review
Sixty years ago, in Kotteakos v. United States, the Supreme Court ruled that a small class of so-called harmless errors committed by courts did not require correction. The Court acknowledged that some judicial errors, though recognizable as errors, did not threaten the validity of criminal convictions and therefore did not quite require reversal. Specifically, the Court held that errors that violated federal statutes should be deemed harmless unless they had a "substantial and injurious effect or influence in determining the jury's verdict." While Kotteakos represented the Supreme Court's first treatment of the concept of harmlessness, other courts had a …
The Hamdan V. Rumsfeld Decision, Thomas F. Berndt, Josiah Ramsey Fricton, Alethea M. Huyser
The Hamdan V. Rumsfeld Decision, Thomas F. Berndt, Josiah Ramsey Fricton, Alethea M. Huyser
William Mitchell Law Review
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Does "Second" Mean Second: Examining The Split Among The Circuit Courts Of Appeals In Interpreting Aedpa's "Second Or Successive" Limitations On Habeas Corpus Petitions, Mark T. Pavkov
Case Western Reserve Law Review
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