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Brecht Vs. Abrahamson

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Apr 21, 1993

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  16. aside on the grounds that the State's references to his post-Miranda silence violated due process under Doyle v. Ohio
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  17. under the standard set forth in Chapman v. California
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  18. reversing, the Court of Appeals held that the proper standard of harmless-error review was that set forth in Kotteakos v. United
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  19. See Arizona v. Fulminante
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  20. resulted. See United States v. Lane
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  21. CHIEF JUSTICE REHNQUIST delivered the opinion of the Court. In Chapman v. California
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  22. s use for impeachment purposes of petitioner's post-Miranda 1 silence, in violation of due process under Doyle v. Ohio
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  23. Kotteakos v. United
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  24. Hartman returned home from work, petitioner shot him in the back and sped off in Mrs. Hartman's car. 1 Miranda v. Arizona
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  25. State's references to petitioner's post-Miranda silence, see n. 2, supra, violated due process under Doyle v. Ohio
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  26. to require reversal. State v. Brecht
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  27. State v. Brecht
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  28. Wis. 2d 297, 317, 421 N. W. 2d 96, 104 (1988) (quoting Chapman v. California
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  29. F. 2d, at 1375 (quoting Kotteakos v. United
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  30. and the confusion which would ensue were we to adopt the Kotteakos harmless-error standard on 3 Cf. Bass v. Nix
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  31. considering these arguments, however, we must first characterize the nature of Doyle error itself. In Doyle v. Ohio
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  32. U. S. 284 , 291 (1986) (quoting South Dakota v. Neville
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  33. the Constitution does not prohibit the use for impeachment purposes of a defendant's silence prior to arrest, Jenkins v. Anderson
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  34. U. S. 231 , 239 (1980), or after arrest if no Miranda warnings are given, Fletcher v. Weir
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  35. tJ''' them. Duckworth v. Eagan
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  36. of such defects-deprivation of the right to counsel,4 for example-requires automatic reversal of the 4 Gideon v. Wainwright
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  37. because they infect the entire trial process. See id., at 309-310. Since our landmark decision in Chapman v. California
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  38. standard. Although we have applied the Chapman standard in a handful of federal habeas cases, see, e. g., Yates v. Evatt
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  39. per curiam), we have yet squarely to address its applicability on collateral review.6 5 Griffin v. California
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  40. U. S. 609 (1965). 6 In Greer v. Miller
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  41. the applicability of the Chapman standard on habeas, we are free to address the issue on the merits. See Edelman v. Jordan
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  42. have limited its application to claims of nonconstitutional error in federal criminal cases. See, e. g., United States v. Lane
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  43. Schneidewind v. ANR
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  44. Pipeline Co., 485 U. S. 293 , 306 (1988) (citing American Trucking Assns., Inc. v. Atchison
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  45. more amenable to harmless-error review of constitutional violations. Cf. United States v. Hasting
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  46. Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. FCC
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  47. claim. We have filled the gaps of the habeas corpus statute with respect to other matters, see, e. g., McCleskey v. Zant
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  48. Sanders v. United
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  49. collateral review is different from direct review resounds throughout our habeas jurisprudence. See, e. g., Wright v. West
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  50. Mackey v. United
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