June 23, 2023
The Supreme Court ruled in a split decision Friday that a criminal defendant's constitutional rights were not violated when the trial judge allowed prosecutors to admit into evidence the confession of a non-testifying codefendant, since the defendant's name was redacted and jurors were given limiting instructions.
March 29, 2023
Some U.S. Supreme Court justices suggested Wednesday that courts should consider a trial's broader context when deciding whether jurors can see a co-defendant's redacted confession, suggesting a bright-line approach leads to nonsensical results.
March 24, 2023
This week, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a major patent battle between pharmaceutical giants, as well as a challenge to a statute making it a crime to encourage illegal immigration that has vexed the justices in recent years.
February 02, 2023
A man convicted of murder for hire told the U.S. Supreme Court that the use of his co-defendant's supposedly anonymized confession at trial violated the Constitution by allowing the jury to glean the petitioner's identity even though he could not cross-examine the confessing co-defendant.
December 13, 2022
In accepting the appeal Tuesday of a man convicted of murder for hire, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether courts violate the confrontation clause when juries hear redacted co-defendant confessions that become glaringly inculpatory in light of other testimony.