Does the error in allowing a jury to learn of a prior conviction compel a reversal?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Beckham, B241516 (Cal. App. 2014):
For all of these reasons, we conclude that it is not reasonably probable that defendant would have been acquitted but for the erroneous admission of the stipulation concerning his prior conviction. Thus, the trial court's error in allowing the jury to learn of the conviction does not compel a reversal. (People v. Watson (1956) 46 Cal.2d 818, 836 [error harmless if not reasonably probable that result would have been different absent the error].)
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