Articles Posted in harmless beyond reasonable doubt

Revising Harmless Error: Making Innocence Relevant to Direct Appeals Helen A. Anderson University of Washington – School of Law October 27, 2010 Abstract: The direct appeal of a convicted defendant is almost never concerned with actual innocence. The system seems to privilege procedural claims, and it is extremely difficult, if…

I posted yesterday on a new Army case dealing with instructions on an affirmative defense in a court-martial under the UCMJ. Today I’m posting on United States v. Ramon, an unpublished opinion from the NMCCA dated 28 September 2010. In his sole assignment of error, the appellant alleges that the…