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.