United States v. Don Richards

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• holding that the Confrontation Clause was violated by the admission of a confession redacted so that a blank space was substituted for the defendant’s name and the officer who read the confession said “deleted” or “deletion” instead of the defendant’s name
• finding no abuse of discretion in denying The no‐impeachment rule and its exceptions are codified as Rule 606(b) of the 9 Federal Rules of Evidence: (1
• interpreting Gray and finding a Bruton error where the co-defendant’s confession referred to three people involved in the crime and the non- confessing co-defendant was “only other person involved in the case”
• finding violation where only two defendants were on trial and redacted statement implicated three participants in the crime, including the confessing defendant, an “inside man” who was not on trial, and a man who was referred to as “my friend”

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