Joseph Hawkins, A/K/A Joseph Davis v. Eugene Lefevre, Superintendent, Clinton Correctional Facility

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• interpreting state court silence as a decision on the merits when under state law no procedural default had occurred
• other constitutional errors committed during the trial were not harmless error because of the paucity of evidence supporting conviction
• harmless error standard sensitive to impact of violation on judicial process

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).