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Supreme Court· 4/21/1987

Richardson v. Marsh

Citations

  • 481 U.S. 200
  • 107 S. Ct. 1702
  • 95 L. Ed. 2d 176
  • 1987 U.S. LEXIS 1812
  • 55 U.S.L.W. 4509

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that the Confrontation Clause is not violated by the admission of a nontestifying codefendant’s confession with a proper limiting instruction
  • holding that Bruton does not categorically exclude confession that is incriminating “only when linked with evidence introduced later at trial”
  • holding that admission of a statement was not a Bruton violation where it \does not directly inculpate anyone\
  • holding that Bruton applies only to out-of-court statements that are “facially incriminating” and that directly implicate the defendant
  • holding that a “limiting instruction” is “proper” when admitting “a non[-]testifying codefendant’s confession” at a joint trial
  • holding that redaction of co-defendant’s confession, in conjunction with proper limiting instruction, prevented Bru-ton violation

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Judges: Scalia, Rehnquist, White, Blackmun, Powell, O'Connor, Stevens, Brennan, Marshall

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