Legal Opinion
George Bernard Eberhardt v. Donald E. Bordenkircher, Warden, Kentucky State Penitentiary, Respondent
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided September 10, 1979No. 78-3588PublishedCited by 85 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN W. PECK, Senior Circuit Judge.
The principal issue in this appeal is how the harmless error standard is to be applied in habeas corpus review of state court convictions, when the error involved was a comment by the prosecutor on the defendant’s failure to take the stand, in violation of the rule laid down in Griffin v. California, 380 U.S. 609, 85 S.Ct. 1229, 14 L.Ed.2d 106 (1965). In 1975, petitioner George Eberhardt was found guilty by a Kentucky jury of one count of armed robbery. On appeal, the Kentucky Supreme Court affirmed his conviction, relying primarily on a harmless error…
2Cases cited14 opinions
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- Griffin v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
- Griffin v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
- Donnelly v. DeChristoforoSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Taylor v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1978
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3Cited by85 opinions
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