State v. Gray

KARWACKI, Judge.

The issue presented in this case is whether the introduction of a nontestifying codefendant’s confession implicating a defendant and others, which is redacted to exclude the names of all those involved in the crime, other than the confessor, by using the words “deleted” and “deletion,” violates a defendant’s rights under the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, even if the jury is instructed to consider the confession only against the codefendant-confessor? We shall hold that under the circumstances in this case it does not and reverse…