Sirkin v. Peeples

How courts have described this case

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• finding that one defendant’s testimony inconsistent with co-defendants’ defenses did not require severance because the testimony was cumulative
• the jury’s “differentiation]” of one defendant from others by its verdict “defeated] ... speculation” that it “inferred a defendant’s guilt just from ... conflicting defenses”
• “At [a competency] hearing, the defendant is presumed to be competent; the party asserting his incompetence has the burden of proving it by a preponderance of the evidence.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).