James Edward Hegler v. Robert G. Borg, Warden Dan Lungren

How courts have described this case

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

• district court examined court reporter and four jurors from petitioner’s state trial to determine if error was harmless
• defendant’s absence during a read back for testimony requested by the jury was subject to harmless-error analysis
• “Although the doctrine applies to a court’s explicit decisions as well as those issues decided by necessary implication, it clearly does not extend to issues an appellate court did not address.”
• “Although the doctrine applies to a court’s explicit decisions as well as those issues decided by necessary implication, it clearly does not extend to issues an appellate court did not address.”
• “[T]he constitutional error [in this case] is a trial error.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).