Legal Opinion
Zafiro v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 25, 1993No. 91-6824PublishedCited by 1,945 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice O’Connor
Rule 8(b) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure provides that defendants may be charged together “if they are alleged to have participated in the same act or transaction or in the same series of acts or transactions constituting an offense or offenses.” Rule 14 of the Rules, in turn, permits a district court to grant a severance of defendants if “it appears that a defendant or the government is prejudiced by a joinder.” In this case, we consider whether Rule 14 requires severance as a matter of law when codefendants present “mutually antagonistic defenses.”
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Gloria Zafiro, Jose Martinez,…
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