What is the standard of review and what is the state of the law on constitutional errors in evidentiary review?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Barajas, 2d Crim. No. B266151 (Cal. App. 2019):
standard of review. (Chapman v. California (1967) 386 U.S. 18 [17 L.Ed.2d 705] (Chapman) [constitutional errors are reversible unless they are harmless beyond a reasonable doubt; People v. Watson (1956) 46 Cal.2d 818 (Watson) [ordinary evidentiary errors are harmless unless, absent the error, it is reasonably probable the defendant would have achieved a more favorable result].)
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