The following excerpt is from Robinson v. Gipson, 1:10-cv—00133-LJO-BAM-HC (E.D. Cal. 2012):
5.Brecht provides the appropriate standard of review of trial errors regardless of whether the state court recognized the error or analyzed it for harmlessness under the standard of Chapman v. California, 38 6 U.S. 18 (1967). Fry v. Pliler, 551 U.S. 112, 121-22 (2007) (concerning evidentiary error).
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