Legal Opinion
Gross v. State
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided August 26, 2022No. 32/21PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Daniel Jay Gross v. State of Maryland, No. 32, September Term, 2021. Opinion by Biran, J. CRIMINAL LAW – HARMLESS ERROR – CUMULATIVENESS – The Court of Appeals reaffirmed that, when analyzing a trial court’s erroneous admission of evidence for harmlessness, the reviewing court’s harmless error analysis is governed by the framework established in Dorsey v. State,
276 Md. 638
(1976). Dorsey’s standard requires the State to show beyond a reasonable doubt that the error in no way influenced the verdict. When reviewing for harmlessness, a court examines the full trial record and, among other things,…
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