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· 10/23/2014

Gary Gathers & Keith Mitchell v. United States

Citations

  • 101 A.3d 1004
  • 2014 D.C. App. LEXIS 438
  • 2014 WL 5366246

How courts have described this case

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

  • stating that \harmlessness must be proven by the constitutional standard of beyond a reasonable doubt\ and that this standard is \equivalent\ to the \any 'reasonable likelihood' \ standard
  • equating “the second Napue prong” with “the burden of showing harmlessness . . . beyond a reasonable doubt”
  • “Although judgment finality is undoubtedly of great importance, it must sometimes yield to higher considerations.”

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Judges: Blackburne-Rigsby, Beckwith, Steadman

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