54 Cited authorities

  1. Chapman v. California

    386 U.S. 18 (1967)   Cited 23,463 times   28 Legal Analyses
    Holding that error is harmless only if "harmless beyond a reasonable doubt"
  2. Schneckloth v. Bustamonte

    412 U.S. 218 (1973)   Cited 11,956 times   20 Legal Analyses
    Holding the State need not prove knowing-and-deliberate consent to search
  3. Dickerson v. United States

    530 U.S. 428 (2000)   Cited 2,284 times   18 Legal Analyses
    Holding that “the protections announced in Miranda ” are “constitutionally required”
  4. Arizona v. Washington

    434 U.S. 497 (1978)   Cited 1,824 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a trial judge's failure to make an explicit finding of manifest necessity does not render the declaration of a mistrial constitutionally defective when the basis for that determination is adequately disclosed by the record
  5. People v. Crimmins

    36 N.Y.2d 230 (N.Y. 1975)   Cited 5,684 times   5 Legal Analyses
    Holding that an error is prejudicial "if an appellate court concludes that there is a significant probability, rather than only a rational possibility, in the particular case that the jury would have acquitted the defendant had it not been for the error or errors which occurred"
  6. People v. Gonzalez

    68 N.Y.2d 424 (N.Y. 1986)   Cited 984 times   2 Legal Analyses
    In People v Gonzalez (68 NY2d 424 [1986]), we set forth the conditions necessary to warrant a missing witness charge and a burden-shifting analysis to determine whether those conditions are met.
  7. People v. Savinon

    100 N.Y.2d 192 (N.Y. 2003)   Cited 233 times
    Finding that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in giving a missing witness instruction in favor of the prosecution where "under either side's version of the alleged crime, defendant was so bonded with [the missing witness] as to have had sex with the complainant with [the missing witness] nearby"
  8. People v. Morris

    2013 N.Y. Slip Op. 6633 (N.Y. 2013)   Cited 173 times
    Holding that evidence of a 911 call accusing defendant of robbing someone at gunpoint was relevant background information that helped explain the aggressive conduct of police when arresting the defendant
  9. People v. Anderson

    42 N.Y.2d 35 (N.Y. 1977)   Cited 467 times
    Holding that incommunicado detention for nineteen hours during which defendant was deprived of sleep and food while interrogators worked in relays was coercive and "the use of his confession offends due process"
  10. People v. Santiago

    52 N.Y.2d 865 (N.Y. 1981)   Cited 382 times
    Holding that the failure to make "an application seeking further or more complete instructions" precluded defendant from "assert[ing] the inadequacy of such instructions as error on appeal"