Yolanda Gonzalez v. American National Lloyds Insurance Company

How courts have described this case

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• holding that inadmissible hearsay against a defendant could still be entered into evidence as long as the declarant was the co-defendant and the jury was given proper limiting instructions not to consider the statements against the defendant
• “Our jury system is based upon the assumption that juries will endeavor to follow the Court’s instructions”
• instructions would permit jury to disregard statement against the defendant
• non-declarant present with declarant on every occasion relevant to crime
• “[ujnless we proceed on the basis that the jury will follow the court’s instructions where those instructions are clear and the circumstances are such that the jury can reasonably be expected to follow them, the jury system makes little sense”
• “Unless we proceed on the basis that the jury will follow the court’s instructions where those instructions are clear and the circumstances are such that the jury can reasonably be expected to follow them, the jury system makes little sense.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).