Roosevelt C. Bentley v. Charles Scully, Superintendent, Greenhaven Correctional Facility

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• denying habeas relief where “prosecutor’s summation comments were both brief and isolated.”
• denying habeas relief where “prosecutor’s summation comments were both brief and isolated”
• finding harmless error and a failure to demonstrate a substantial or injurious effect where there was “compelling evidence in the prosecution’s case... [and] the prosecutor’s summation comments were both brief and isolated”
• “Habeas relief is not appropriate when there is merely a ‘reasonable possibility’ that trial error contributed to the verdict.”
• “Habeas relief is not appropriate when there is merely a ‘reasonable probability’ that trial error contributed to the verdict.” (quoting Brecht, 507 U.S. at 637)
• “Habeas relief is not appropriate when there is merely a ‘reasonable possibility’ that trial error contributed to the verdict”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).