Lawrence v. Com.

How courts have described this case

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• providing that hearsay “includes testimony given by a witness who relates what others have told him”
• hearsay \includes testimony given by a witness who relates what others have told him\ (citation omitted)
• “This Court has held that nonconstitutional error is harmless if the reviewing court can be sure that the error did not influence the jury and only had a slight effect.”
• \[I]t cannot be found with assurance that the evidence concerning the details of unadjudicated allegations of sexual misconduct did not influence the jury or that it had only slight effect.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).