Legal Opinion
Brecht v. Abrahamson
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 7, 1993No. 91-7358PublishedCited by 6,336 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Rehnquist
In Chapman v. California, 386 U. S. 18, 24 (1967), we held that the standard for determining whether a conviction must be set aside because of federal constitutional error is whether the error “was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.” In this case we must decide whether the Chapman harmless-error standard applies in determining whether the *623prosecution’s use for impeachment purposes of petitioner’s post-Miranda1 silence, in violation of due process under Doyle v. Ohio, 426 U. S. 610 (1976), entitles petitioner to ha-beas corpus relief. We hold that it does not. Instead, the standard for…
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