United States Sixth Circuit

When a state court has found an error to be harmless, the standard of review on collateral review is whether the state court's harmless-error decision was contrary to, or an unreasonable application of, the clearly established federal rule that a trial error is harmless only if it is harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/14/2006
• Published 12/14/2006

Judges

• Before:  BOGGS, Chief Judge;  MARTIN, Circuit Judge;  and OLIVER, District Judge.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Raina I. Korbakis, Office of the Attorney General, Lansing, Michigan, for Appellant.  Andrew N. Wise, Federal Public Defenders Office, Detroit, Michigan, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Raina I. Korbakis, Office of the Attorney General, Lansing, Michigan, for Appellant.  Andrew K. Wilkins, Okemos, Michigan, for Appellee.