United States v. Dempsey Buford Merida, David Lee Merida, William Benjamin King, Tim Walker and Billy Ray Lilley

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• asserting that severance is not needed if “the jury could sort out the evidence reasonably and view each defendant and the evidence relating to that 14 defendant separately”
• “Juries are free to return inconsistent verdicts, for whatever reason, provided their convictions are supported by adequate evidence.”
• \[A] jury may choose to believe part of what a witness says without believing all of that witness's testimony.\
• objective good faith of officers bolstered by their personal knowledge that search warrant emanated in part from grand jury indictment, although fact of indictment apparently was not set forth in search warrant affidavit
• “The test for severance under Rule 14 is whether the jury could sort out the evidence reasonably and view each defendant and the evidence relating to that defendant separately.”

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