United States v. Roy Moreno Ramirez, United States of America v. Robert H. Reynolds

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• “Only where the acceptance of one party’s defense will preclude the acquittal of the other party does the existence of antagonistic defenses mandate severance.”
• defendant claimed that police threatened to report his parole violations in order to coerce him into becoming an informer
• undercover agents may, under proper circumstances, supply drugs to a suspect to gain his confidence
• “The government did not create the crime — Reynolds and his associates did that.”
• no coercion when judge stated that jury's inability to reach verdict as to one defendant was \unacceptable\
• verdict not coerced when jury deliberated for one day after court asked them to continue

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).