Chapman v. California, No. 95 (U.S. Supreme Court) (386 U.S. 18; 87 S.Ct. 824) (February 20, 2067) (Justice Black)
This seminal case on the differences between plain and harmless error held that before a court can determine that an error is harmless it must be able to declare its belief that it was "harmless beyond a reasonable doubt" (id., at 24).
In this case the Court addressed the issue ...
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