United States v. Anthony J. Peters, Lawrence Peters, and Jacek Odoner

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• finding no case in which an instruction of this type had been held to be reversible error
• rejecting defendant’s argument that “his fraternal relationship with [a code-fendant] made it impossible for the jury to follow the court’s instructions, and that his conviction thus resulted from ‘suspicion and innuendo’ created by the evidence against [his brother]”
• where the court acknowledged that this was an option available to a defendant who made a similar argument
• superseded on other grounds, as stated in United States v. Guerrero, 894 F.2d 261, 267 (7th Cir. 1990)
• the admissibility of business records is entrusted to the broad discretion of the trial court, and a reviewing court cannot overrule the trial court’s decision absent evidence of an abuse of discretion
• joint trials do not infringe upon a defendant’s right to a fair trial where the jury is able to follow admonitory instructions and to keep separate, collate and appraise the evidence relevant only to each defendant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).