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· 5/27/1986

United States v. James K. Farnham

Citations

  • 791 F.2d 331
  • 20 Fed. R. Serv. 1031
  • 1986 U.S. App. LEXIS 25309

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that a violation of Rule 615 does not require vacatur of con- victions if the error was harmless
  • holding trial court's allowance of multiple representation to be presumptively reversible error: other party need not even show prejudice
  • stating that under Rule 615 \we remain bound by the harmless error rule.\
  • finding violation of Rule 615 not harmless when two agents testified regarding their personal knowledge of the same events
  • the government is generally permitted to have one case agent in the courtroom during trial
  • “Although Rule 615 does not require that [the defendant] show prejudice, we remain bound by the harmless error rule.”

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Judges: Winter, Murnaghan, Ervin

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