Richard W. Dunnigan v. John P. Keane, Superintendent, Sing Sing Correctional Facility

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• holding that evidence must be \sufficiently material to provide the basis for conviction\ to violate the Due Process Clause
• concluding that due process claim had been waived because, at trial, petitioner neither objected to the testimony in question nor requested a limiting instruction
• addressing testimony identifying petitioner as a felon and referring to his incarceration at Attica Correctional Facility
• “Where the prejudicial evidence is probative of an essential element in the case, its admission does not violate the defendant’s right to due process.” (cleaned up)
• “Where the prejudicial evidence is probative of an essential element in the case, its admission does not violate the defendant’s right to due process.” (cleaned up)
• this factor favored admissibility because the witness engaged “in hand-to-hand combat” with the assailant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).