James Benn v. Charles Greiner

How courts have described this case

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• holding that Confrontation Clause error was harmless “in the face of the overwhelming evidence” of guilt, but noting that the testimony of the rape victim herself was “certainly important to the prosecution’s case”
• applying the Van Arsdall factors under Brecht review, and noting that it produces the same result as AEDPAChapman review
• post-Gutierrez case declining to decide the harmless error standard to be applied “in the absence of a state court adjudication of harmlessness”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).