Supreme Court of Maryland
Gross v. State
August 26, 2022
Summary
The Court of Appeals reaffirmed that Maryland harmless-error review asks whether the reviewing court can conclude beyond a reasonable doubt that an error in no way influenced the verdict, without requiring a separate showing of overwhelming and largely uncontroverted evidence. It held that the cumulative nature of erroneously admitted evidence is relevant to that inquiry and concluded that the improperly admitted video was cumulative of multiple other accounts and corroborating DNA evidence. The Court therefore affirmed the judgment below; no separate opinion is included in the record provided.