Darrell Anthony Gautt v. Gail Lewis, Warden

How courts have described this case

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• noting that our precedent suggesting that such error is structural “predates . . . Supreme Court cases . . . which stressed the limited 11 number of ‘structural errors’”
• noting that our precedent suggesting that such error is structural “predates . . . Supreme Court cases . . . which stressed the limited 10 number of ‘structural errors’”
• explaining that “the charging document need not contain a citation to the specific statute at issue; the substance of the information, however, must in some appreciable way apprise the defendant of the charges against him so that he may prepare a defense accordingly”
• finding a violation where the defendant was convicted of a different crime than he was charged with
• granting habeas relief because the defendant’s charging document did not provide adequate notice of the charges brought, as 20 required by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments
• “[F]or purposes of our analysis today, we will assume-without deciding-that such sources can be parsed for evidence of notice to the defendant____”

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