United States v. Commanche

How courts have described this case

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

• rejecting admission of the details of prior battery convictions as irrelevant to refuting an undisputed claim of self-defense
• vacating assault conviction where district court admitted evidence of prior assaults
• “A harmless error is one that does not have a substantial influence on the outcome of the trial; nor does it leave one in grave doubt as to whether it had such effect.” (internal quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).