New York Court of Appeals· 2/25/1975

People v. Crimmins

Citations

36 N.Y.2d 230
326 N.E.2d 787
367 N.Y.S.2d 213
1975 N.Y. LEXIS 1746

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holding that an error is prejudicial “if an appellate court concludes that there is a significant probability, rather than only a rational possibility, in the particular case that the jury would have acquitted the defendant had it not been for the error or errors which occurred”
finding that errors are considered harmless only when “there is no reasonable possibility that the error might have contributed to defendant’s conviction and that it was thus harmless beyond a reasonable doubt”
setting forth test for harmless constitutional error as no reasonable possibility that the error might have contributed to defendant's conviction
employing the test for harmless constitutional error laid down by the Supreme Court of the United States in Chapman v. California, 386 U.S. 18, 24, 87 S.Ct. 824, 17 L.Ed.2d 705 (1967
the New York state constitutional equivalent to Chapman v. California, 386 U.S. 18 (1967)
error harmful if “there is a significant probability, rather than only a rational possibility . . . that the jury would have acquitted the defendant had it not been for the error or errors which occurred”

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Judges: Cooke, Jones

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