How have courts considered whether or not an error was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Hubbard, F059381 (Cal. App. 2011):
Code, 353.) We thus need not decide whether or not the trial court improperly questioned appellant, and if so, whether the error was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt. (Low, supra, 49 Cal.4th at p. 393; Chapman v. California (1967) 386 U.S. 18, 24.)
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