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· 10/31/1861

United States ex rel. Murphy v. Porter

Citations

  • 27 F. Cas. 599
  • 2 Hayw. & H.D.C. 394
  • 1861 U.S. App. LEXIS 455

How courts have described this case

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

  • recognizing that “the harmless error standard is functionally equivalent to the third prong of the plain error test”
  • “the evidence introduced at trial was sufficient to sustain [the defendant’s] murder conviction” even where all of that evidence was held to be inadmissible

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Judges: Dunlop, Morsell

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