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ignored. Such a context is presented here, where the powerfully incriminating extrajudicial statements of a codefendant, who stands accused side-by-side with the defendant, are deliberately spread before the jury in a joint trial. Not only are the incriminations devastating to the defendant but their credibility is inevitably suspect . . . . The unreliability of such evidence is intolerably compounded when the alleged accomplice, as here, does not testify and cannot be tested by cross-examination."
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As the basis for its holding, the Supreme Court stated that "There are some contexts in which the risk that the jury will not, or cannot, follow instructions is so great, and the consequences of failure so vital to the defendant, that the practical and human limitations of the jury system cannot be
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by his codefendant was introduced in their joint trial, regardless of whether the jury received instructions only to consider it against the confessor. This has become known as the
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ruling in which the Court held that a defendant was deprived of his rights under the
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Marshall took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.
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Index

Burton v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
U.S.
123
more
L. Ed. 2d
Earl Warren
Hugo Black
William O. Douglas
John M. Harlan II
William J. Brennan Jr.
Potter Stewart
Byron White
Abe Fortas
Thurgood Marshall
U.S. Const. amend. VI
352
U.S.
232
United States Supreme Court
Confrontation Clause
confession
Delli Paoli v. United States
Cruz v. New York
"The Bruton Rule: A Primer"
"THE ADMISSION OF A CODEFENDANT'S CONFESSION AFTER BRUTON V. UNITED STATES: THE QUESTIONS AND A PROPOSAL FOR THEIR RESOLUTION"
"Bruton v. United States, 391 U.S. 123 (1968)"

Bruton v. United States
391

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