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• McQUEENEY v. Wilmington Tr. Co., 779 F.2d 916 (3d Cir. 1985)
  …(evi-dentiary ruling was harmless where evidence in question was cumulative of evidence already properly admitted), cert. denied, 464 U.S. 956, 1008, 104 S.Ct. 371, 527, 78 L.Ed.2d 330 (1983); Taylor v. Curry, 708 F. 2d 886 (2d Cir.), cert. denied, 464 U.S. 1000, 104 S.Ct. 503, 78 L.Ed.2d 694 (1983). We cannot say that it is highly probable that the trial court’s refusal to enter evidence of plaintiff’s subornation of perjury did not affect the defendants’ substantial rights. Hence, the court’s erroneous ru…
• Rosario v. Kuhlman, 839 F.2d 918 (2d Cir. 1988)
  …s harmless beyond a reasonable doubt. Chapman v. California, 386 U.S. 18, 22-24, 87 S.Ct. 824, 827-28, 17 L.Ed.2d 705, rehearing denied, 386 U.S. 987, 87 S.Ct. 1283, 18 L.Ed.2d 241 (1967); Taylor v. Curry, 708 F. 2d 886, 891 (2d Cir.), cert. denied, 464 U.S. 1000, 104 S.Ct. 503, 78 L.Ed.2d 694 (1983). The right to present a defense is one of the “minimum essentials of a fair trial.” Chambers v. Mississippi, 410 U.S. 284, 294, 93 S.Ct. 1038, 1045, 35 L.Ed.2d 297 (1973), citing In re Oliver, 333 U.S. 257, 273…
• Donovan J.R. Blissett v. Lefevre, 924 F.2d 434 (2d Cir. 1991)
  …dge’s refusal to directly inform the jury of Ashman’s immunity was error, it was clearly not an error of constitutional dimension that would warrant the issuance of a writ of habeas corpus. See Taylor v. Curry, 708 F. 2d 886 (2d Cir.), cert. denied, 464 U.S. 1000, 104 S.Ct. 503, 78 L.Ed.2d 694 (1983). The relevant inquiry is whether the error, if there was one, deprived petitioner of a fundamentally fair trial. Collins v. Scully, 755 F. 2d 16, 18 (2d Cir.1985); Taylor v. Curry, 708 F. 2d at 891. No such depr…