United States v. Jerry Washington and Herbert Edward James

How courts have described this case

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• holding that any error that court may have made in admitting inadmissible evidence was harmless because government presented overwhelming evidence establishing defendant’s guilt
• holding that an error is harmless if there is “overwhelming evidence establishing [the defendant’s] guilt”
• noting that narcotics agents may testify about the significance of certain methods of operation of the drug distribution business
• finding that whether perjurious statements concern a completely collateral matter unrelated to defendant’s guilt is important to materiality
• assuming expert testimony admitted in error, error was harmless in light of overwhelming evidence of guilt
• noting that a prosecutor is not prohibited from reciting to the jury those inferences he wishes the jury 2 would draw from the evidence as long as the inferences are based in the evidence.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).