United States v. Art Bernal

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• holding that an objection was adequate when the judge cut short the objection and the “defendant was not afforded the opportunity to explain his objection fully”
• issue in harmless error inquiry is whether the error itself had a substantial impact
• “[O]ur primary question [with respect to harmless error] is what effect the error had, or reasonably may have had, upon the jury’s decision. We must view the error, not in isolation, but in relation to the entire proceedings.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).