Stuckey v. Wallace C. Drennan, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• \[a]ppellate courts possess an inherent supervisory authority over the administration of justice\ [emphasis added]
• “[appellate courts possess an inherent supervisory authority over the administration of justice” [emphasis added]
• ‘‘[d]ue process seeks to assure a defendant a fair trial, not a perfect one’’ (internal quotation marks omitted)
• ‘‘[t]he trial court . . . was in the best position to assess the credibility of the jurors’’
• when case involves error affecting framework within which trial proceeds, rather than simply error in trial process itself, resulting trial is necessarily rendered fundamentally unfair, and structural error doctrine precludes harmless error review
• when case involves error affecting framework within which trial proceeds, rather than simply error in trial process itself, resulting trial is necessarily rendered fundamentally unfair, and structural error doctrine precludes harmless error review

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).