Legal Opinion
McCoy v. United States
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided February 23, 2006No. 03-CF-722, 03-CF-1184PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NEBEKER, Senior Judge:
These appeals from convictions require the court to decide whether admission of a confession by each appellant was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt. The trial court had denied their motions to suppress the confessions, but after these appeals were noted, the Supreme Court of the United States decided Missouri v. Seibert, 542 U.S. 600, 124 S.Ct. 2601, 159 L.Ed.2d 643 (2004), which, as the government recognizes, renders the confessions inadmissible.
The threshold for harmlessness in erroneously admitting a confession has been set quite high. Chapman v. California, 386…
2Cases cited36 opinions
- Miranda v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Chapman v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Crawford v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 2004
- Bruton v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Arizona v. FulminanteSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
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