State ex rel. Irizarry v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• missing witness instruction not permissible because witness likely would have invoked privilege against self-incrimination
• declining to reach issue of dual standards when error is harmless under both
• applying both standards, noting there may be no differ ence between the two
• declining to reach issue of dual standards when error is harmless under both
• burden of persuasion on defendant to establish harmlessness of nonconstitutional error is that error was more likely than not to have affected verdict
• when impropriety is nonconstitutional, “defendant must show that the prejudice resulting from the impropriety was so substantial as to undermine confidence in the fairness of the verdict”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).