Olivarez, Warden v. McKinney

How later courts describe this case

• recognizing criminal defendant’s due process right to exclusion of prejudicial evidence
• finding that erroneously admitted bad character evidence violated the Brecht standard
• petition for writ of certiorari to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, 993 F.2d 1378 (9th Cir.1993
• where murder victim’s throat slit, evidence of defendant’s interest in knives so inflammatory and of so little relevance as to render trial fundamentally unfair in violation of due process
• petition for writ of certiorari to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, 993 F.2d 1378 (9th Cir.1993), in which the question was whether the introduction of propensity evidence in a closely balanced case constituted a per se due process violation, 1993 WL 13076599