United States v. Walter H. McClure and Anthony Tafoya

How courts have described this case

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• holding unanimous finding of connection to cocaine sufficient
• holding unanimous finding of connection to cocaine sufficient
• “[T]o hold otherwise would render meaningless the distinction between oral and written statements under the rule.”
• irreconcilable and mutually exclusive defenses may, in some cases, require severance if the record shows actual prejudice
• “We have ... held that severance is not required simply because separate trials might have offered a better chance for acquittal to one or more of the accused.”
• “[O]ne defendant’s attempt to cast blame on the other is not in itself a sufficient reason to require separate trials.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).