Commonwealth v. Peruzzi

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• court must be able to say with fair assurance that error did not influence jury, or had but very slight effect
• error is not prejudicial only if we are “sure that the error did not influence the jury, or had but very slight effect”
• error prejudicial unless it “did not influence the jury, or had but very slight effect”
• “An error is nonprejudicial only ‘if . . . the conviction is sure that the error did not influence the jury, or had but very slight effect’ ”
• an error is nonprejudicial only if we are “sure that the error did not influence the jury, or had but very slight effect”
• “An error is nonprejudicial only if. . . the conviction is sure that the error did not influence the jury, or had but very slight effect”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).