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Title: Harrington v. California
Author : Supreme Court of the United States
Release Date : January 02, 1969
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 59 KB

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We held in Chapman v. California, 386 U.S. 18, that "before a federal constitutional error can be held harmless, the court must be able to declare a belief that it was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt." Id., at 24. We said that, although "there are some constitutional rights so basic to a fair trial that their infraction can never be treated as harmless error" (id., at 23), not all