California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Godwin, D064909 (Cal. App. 2015):
Assuming, without deciding, that at sentencing the court could not properly consider defendant's non-Mirandized admission to the correctional officer, the record shows defendant's incriminating statements to the correctional officer were of minimal consequence at the sentencing hearing; hence, any error was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt. (People v. Thomas (2011) 51 Cal.4th 449, 498 [harmless beyond a
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