Perez-Torres v. Cocoa Point Car Serv.

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting burdens of proof in favor of an independent determination of whether a trial error had a substantial and injurious effect
• rejecting burdens of proof in favor of an independent determination of whether a trial error had a substantial and injurious effect
• juror misconduct occurs when a juror introduces into the jury’s deliberation a matter which was not in evidence or in the instructions
• \Only if the argument were constitutional error would we have to decide whether the constitutional error was harmless.\
• “Only if the argument were constitutional error would we have to decide whether the constitutional error was harmless.”
• if defect adequately cured no actual prejudice results, error is harmless, and petitioner is not entitled to writ

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).