What is the harmless error rule and what is the impact of it?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Asay, 224 Cal.App.3d 608, 273 Cal.Rptr. 737 (Cal. App. 1990):
10 As the United States recently said in Satterwhite v. Texas (1988) 486 U.S. 249, 256, 108 S.Ct. 1792, 1797, 100 L.Ed.2d 284: "The harmless error rule ' "promotes public respect for the criminal process by focusing on the underlying fairness of the trial rather than on the virtually inevitable presence of immaterial error." ' [Citations.]"
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