Commonwealth v. Travers

OPINION

CASTILLE, Justice.

This Court granted allowance of appeal in this matter to consider whether the redaction of a non-testifying co-defendant’s confession in a joint trial, which replaced any direct reference to the defendant with the words “the other man,” when accompanied by an appropriate cautionary charge, was sufficient to protect the defendant’s Sixth Amendment confrontation clause rights under Bruton v. United States, 391 U.S. 123, 88 S.Ct. 1620, 20 L.Ed.2d 476 (1968), and the United States Supreme Court’s more recent decision in Gray v. Maryland, 523 U.S. 185, 118 S.Ct. 1151, 140…