United States v. Moses Tootick, United States of America v. Charles Evans Frank

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• explaining that mutually exclusive defenses occur when two defendants claim innocence but blame each other and the “acquittal of one codefendant would necessarily call for the conviction of the other”
• “Counsel was given virtually uncontrolled leave to portray [his code-fendant] as the sole guilty party.”
• “Mutually exclusive defenses are said to exist when acquittal of one codefendant would necessarily call for the conviction of the other.”
• citin UnItedStates v Adler 879 F 2d 491 497 (9th Cir 1988 30 Umtedgtates v Crawford 581 F 2d 489 491 92 (5th Cir 1978) 3‘ Bruton 391 U S at 124 (emphasis added

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