United States v. One Water Cask

How courts have described this case

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• “[W]e presume that jurors follow the court’s instructions and thus would not have relied on the statement as evidence of Frett’s guilt, if they had been so instructed.”
• the People’s failure to address “the critical question” on appeal of whether a constitutional error was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt prevented this Court from holding that the error was harmless
• “had the statement been properly used solely for impeachment, the court would have provided a limiting instruction, informing the jury that [it] could not use the statement” as evidence of the defendant’s guilt

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).