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Fry Vs. Pliler

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jun 11, 2007

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  1. United States Vs. Scheffer US Supreme Court · Mar 31, 1998
  2. Brecht Vs. Abrahamson US Supreme Court · Apr 21, 1993
  3. United States Vs. Mechanik US Supreme Court · Feb 25, 1986
  4. Syllabus October Term, 2006 Fry V. Pliler
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  5. testimony violated Chambers v. Mississippi
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  6. s verdict under Brecht v. Abrahamson
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  7. standard set forth in Chapman v. California
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  8. the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA), as interpreted in Mitchell v. Esparza
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  9. in which Breyer, J., joined in part. Breyer, J., filed an opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part. Fry v. Pliler
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  10. Opinion of the Court Fry V. Pliler
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  11. Supreme Court of the United States No. 06-5247 John Francis Fry, Petitioner V. Cheryl
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  12. standard set forth in Brecht v. Abrahamson
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  13. testimony deprived him of a fair opportunity to defend himself, in violation of Chambers v. Mississippi
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  14. nature of the testimony. People v. Fry
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  15. standard of review applied to nonconstitutional errors on direct appeal from federal convictions. See Kotteakos v. United
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  16. ibid . (quoting United States v. Mechanik
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  17. the state appellate court recognized the constitutional error and reached the Chapman question. See Penry v. Johnson
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  18. Calderon v. Coleman
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  19. d)(1). In Mitchell v. Esparza
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  20. recognition that AEDPA limited rather than expanded the availability of habeas relief, see, e.g. , Williams v. Taylor
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  21. U. S., at 637 (quoting United States v. Lane
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  22. when constitutional error in a state-court trial is first recognized by a federal court. Compare, e.g. , Bains v. Cambra
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  23. CA9 2000), with Orndorff v. Lockhart
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  24. testimony was an unreasonable application of Chambers v. Mississippi
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  25. Neal v. McAninch
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  26. Neal . Fry v. Pliler
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  27. Opinion of Stevens, J. Fry V. Pliler
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  28. should also answer the question whether the constitutional error was harmless under the standard announced in Brecht v. Abrahamson
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  29. emphasize the important point that the Brecht standard, as more fully explained in our opinion in Kotteakos v. United
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  30. testimony for lack of foundation was clear constitutional error under Chambers v. Mississippi
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  31. Cf. Skipper v. South
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  32. is difficult to imagine a less appropriate case for an exception to that commonsense proposition. We found in Parker v. Gladden
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  33. We have not been shy in emphasizing that federal habeas courts do not lightly find constitutional error. See Carey v. Musladin
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  34. of the Court of Appeals. Footnote 1 In Brecht itself the application of the standard of Kotteakos v. United
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  35. App. 179. Footnote 4 See United States v. Fields
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  36. Kennedy v. Lockyer
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  37. Powell v. Collins
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  38. United States v. Varoudakis
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  39. United States v. Ottersburg
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  40. Medina v. Barnes
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  41. Justice Breyer, concurring in part and dissenting in part. I agree with the Court that Brecht v. Abrahamson
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  42. Ante , at 3 (opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part) (citing Chambers v. Mississippi
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  43. U. S. 284 (1973)). Cf. Kyles v. Whitley
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  44. U. S. 419 , 435 (1995) (similar statement as to errors under Brady v. Maryland
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  45. normally will not rise to the level of a constitutional, Chambers , mistake. Cf., e.g. , United States v. Scheffer
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  46. Mitchell v. Esparza
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  47. John Francis Fry, Petitioner V. Cheryl
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  48. of Chambers v. Mississippi
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  49. People v. Fry
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  50. See Kotteakos v. United
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