United States v. Ivan Buljubasic and Slobodan Pavlovic

How courts have described this case

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• noting that where “things [are] going defendant’s way ... an inference of assent from silence [is] implausible”
• “finger-pointing is an acceptable cost of the joint trial and at times is even beneficial because it helps complete the picture before the trier of fact”
• noting that co-defendant's coercion defense made severance \unavoidable\
• upholding joinder where indictment charged common scheme to commit arson and prosecutors knew “at the time of the indictment” that defendant denied “from the beginning knowing about or having anything to do with the arson, or even knowing” his codefendant
• waiver of attorney-client privilege occurs when client reveals confidential portion of communication to third party
• defendant may still be determined to have given consent even where suggestion for mistrial originates with the trial judge

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).