Foster v. United States

NEWMAN, Associate Judge:

In Richardson v. Marsh, 481 U.S. 200, 107 S.Ct. 1702, 95 L.Ed.2d 176 (1987), further explicating Bruton v. United States, 391 U.S. 123, 88 S.Ct. 1620, 20 L.Ed.2d 476 (1968), the Court held “the Confrontation Clause is not violated by the admission of a nontestifying codefendant’s confession with a proper limiting instruction when, as here, the confession is redacted to eliminate not only the defendant’s name but any reference to her existence.” Richardson v. Marsh, supra, 107 S.Ct. at 1709. The Court further stated: “We express no opinion on the admissibility of a…