United States v. Mark Willner, M.D.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the district court’s error in allowing a witness to give expert testimony was harmless because of “the overwhelming evidence of the [defendants’] guilt as charged in the indictment”
• stating deliberate ignorance may establish knowledge of the unlawful purpose of the conspiracy
• “Anyone can state what a document says or read from it if it has been admitted into evidence, and permitting this testimony was not error.”
• “One circumstance in which courts find constitutional errors harmless beyond a reasonable doubt is when the evidence of the defendant’s guilt is ‘so overwhelming.’”
• “When there is overwhelming evidence of a defendant’s guilt . . . non-constitutional error is harmless.”
• reversing a conspiracy conviction for lack of proof of knowledge

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).