Breeden v. New Jersey Department of Corrections

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the admission of evidence about a prior crime under OCGA § 24-4-404 (b) was harmless, partly because the jury learned that the defendant had been punished for that crime and the trial court gave a limiting instruction about the use of the evidence
• noting that the fact that a defendant has already been punished for the extrinsic crime meant that “it is less likely that a reasonable juror would have been inclined to punish him again for that crime”
• explaining that a tolling allegation is a “material allegation”
• “The test for determining nonconstitutional harmless error is whether it is highly probable that the error did not contribute to the verdict.”
• “The test for determining nonconstitutional harmless error is whether it is highly probable that the error did not contribute to the verdict.”
• trial court did not clearly err in failing to give more detailed jury instruc- tion when appellant cited no precedent requiring it

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).