Commonwealth v. Katsafanas

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that the appellant has the burden of proving that denial of severance constituted manifest abuse of discretion or clear injustice; \[t]he assertion of a better chance of acquittal\ if severance were granted does not meet this burden.
• explaining that the appellant has the burden of proving that denial of severance constituted manifest abuse of discretion or clear injustice; “[t]he assertion of a better chance of acquittal” if severance were granted does not meet this burden.
• addressing whether the supervising judge of a multicounty investigating grand jury had selected an appropriate county for trial
• joint trial proper despite evidence of co-defendant’s perjury, offered to show consciousness of guilt

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).