Opinion ID: 1456526
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 11

Heading: Warman's cumulative-error claim is without merit

Text: Warman also asserts that, when viewed together, the numerous errors he alleges require us to reverse his conviction. Under cumulative-error analysis, a defendant must show that the combined effect of individually harmless errors was so prejudicial as to render his trial fundamentally unfair. United States v. Trujillo, 376 F.3d 593, 614 (6th Cir.2004) (where defendant failed to identify any error to combine with an incident of harmless error, defendant could not show that he was denied a fundamentally fair trial). That is so because errors that might not be so prejudicial as to amount to a deprivation of due process when considered alone ... may cumulatively produce a trial setting that is fundamentally unfair. Id. As explained above, the admission of the two statements by Hannum identifying Warman as his partner in the cocaine trade was harmless error, and the admission of the testimony by Agent Hawks directly identifying Warman as an Outlaw and a drug dealer was non-prejudicial plain error. However, because all of the testimony in question was independently corroborated by admissible evidence presented at trial showing Warman's participation in the OMC conspiracy, even when combined, these errors do not prejudice Warman such that we must reverse his conviction. [4]