The following excerpt is from U.S. v. Nakai, 413 F.3d 1019 (9th Cir. 2005):
In the instant case, however, we hold that its use did not constitute fatal error. It was not structural error, that narrow class of error depriving a defendant of a fair trial. It was, therefore, subject to harmless error analysis. Neder v. United States, 527 U.S. 1, 8-9, 119 S.Ct. 1827, 144 L.Ed.2d 35 (1999).
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