California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from The People v. Albert Benjamin Cisneros II, B215151, No. KA079794 (Cal. App. 2011):
Because there is a reasonable probability that a jury may have found defendant not guilty if the excluded evidence had been admitted, we concluded that the federal constitutional error committed here cannot be deemed harmless. (Chapman v. California, supra, 386 U.S. at p. 24.)
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