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Prejudice must be measured against the evidence the jury actually saw

Case: Gary Richard Whitton v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of CorrectionsComparison published: 2026-07-17 Determination published 120 days before this comparison. The underlying determination is NLI SCOTUS Resolution 0132, published 2026-03-19. Publication dates are timestamped by Substack, not by NLI. The decisive question Must prejudice from constitutional trial error be evaluated solely on the…

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Status
Comparative determination
Application
Comparative determination
Forum / context
Supreme Court of the United States · Comparative determination

Decisive question

Must prejudice from constitutional trial error be evaluated solely on the evidence actually presented to the jury?

Controlling dependency

Whether prejudice review may take account of evidence that was never before the jury.

Defeat condition

Authority permitting consideration of evidence outside the trial record would have defeated the construction.

Case: Gary Richard Whitton v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections
Comparison published: 2026-07-17

Determination published 120 days before this comparison. The underlying determination is NLI SCOTUS Resolution 0132, published 2026-03-19. Publication dates are timestamped by Substack, not by NLI.

The decisive question

Must prejudice from constitutional trial error be evaluated solely on the evidence actually presented to the jury?

The controlling dependency

Whether prejudice review may take account of evidence that was never before the jury.

The defeat condition

Authority permitting consideration of evidence outside the trial record would have defeated the construction.

How it compared

Aligned at the controlling evidentiary gate. The determination — grant certiorari and vacate the Eleventh Circuit — matched the Court’s per curiam disposition.

NLI’s role

Published analysis only. No participation in the case.

Limits of this record

NLI was not counsel, a party, or a participant in this case, and filed nothing in it. This record establishes only that NLI published the stated determination on the stated date and how that determination compared with the decision the Court later reached. It does not establish that NLI influenced the outcome, that NLI’s reasoning was adopted, or that a comparable result should be expected in any other matter.

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