Harmless Error
(n) Harmless error is the error entered in a legal proceeding which was not significant to influence the outcome or opinion from the opinion arrived if the mistake was not there.
HARMLESS ERROR DOCTRINE - An error made by a court may be subject to the harmless error doctrine of Chapman v. California, 386 U.S. 18 (1967).
Harmless Error: An error committed during a trial that was corrected or was not serious enough to affect the outcome of a trial and therefore was not sufficiently harmful (prejudicial) to be reversed on appeal.
harmless error
n. an error by a judge in the conduct of a trial which an appellate court finds is not sufficient for it to reverse or modify the lower court's judgment at trial.
harmless error - An error committed by a lower court during a trial, but determined by an appellate court not to be prejudicial to the rights of the party affected, and therefore furnishing no basis for reversal of the lower court's judgment.
HARMLESS ERROR -- An error committed in the course of a trial, which does not justify reversal of the verdict on appeal.
 See also: Court, Error, Trial, Law, Party
  
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