McCarthy v. State

How courts have described this case

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• holding error is not harmless beyond a reasonable doubt if there is reasonable likelihood that error materially affected jury’s deliberations
• holding error is not harmless beyond a reasonable doubt if there is reasonable likelihood that error materially affected jury’s deliberations
• explaining that issues differ when a statement is erroneously admitted during punishment phase of capital murder trial than during guilt-innocence phase
• concluding beyond reasonable doubt that erroneous admission of appellant’s confession into evidence did not contribute to appellant’s conviction or punishment where evidence included other statements by appellant “effectively admitting” same acts described in confession
• holding error is not harmless beyond a charged. There was testimony from other witnesses reasonable doubt if there is reasonable likelihood that concerning KM’s outcry, but the veracity of those outcry error materially affected jury’s deliberations
• holding error is not harmless beyond a charged. There was testimony from other witnesses reasonable doubt if there is reasonable likelihood that concerning KM’s outcry, but the veracity of those outcry error materially affected jury’s deliberations

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).