· 11/9/1945
Protests 99398-K of Eastern Grocery Co.
Citations
- 15 Cust. Ct. 315
How courts have described this case
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- concluding that the ends of justice do not weigh in favor of reversal in part because the error “was not particularly grave”
- discussing pretext call made by eleven-year-old sexual assault victim to her abuser, despite the officer’s admission that they “‘kind of felt bad while [they] were doing it,’ but he believed that the pretext call ‘was necessary to try to get as much evidence as we could.’”
- “In determining whether any error was grave, we consider the likelihood that the error affected the outcome of the proceeding below.”
- “[T]he error in this case was not particularly grave, in terms of its likelihood of affecting the verdict * * *.”
- whether the record includes additional evidence of a defendant’s guilt is a factor that we have considered in declining to exercise our discretion to correct plain error
- whether the record includes additional evidence of a defendant’s guilt is a factor that we have considered in declining to exercise our discretion to correct plain error
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Judges: Cole
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