Michael Bacon v. Nadine Woodward

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How courts have described this case

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• holding that incompleteness in a record precludes a defendant-appellant from showing that an error occurred
• holding incompleteness in an appellate record precludes a defendant from showing an error occurred
• holding incompleteness in an appellate record precludes a defendant from showing an error occurred
• approving the trial court’s definition of reasonable doubt as one that is “not a mere possible, fanciful or academic doubt”
• explaining in an analogous situation of ex parte communications between a judge and potential jurors that there is no reversible error when the communication is harmless
• “[W]hatever incompleteness may exist in the record precludes defendant from showing that error occurred....”

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