People v. Washington

*22Under the so-called Aranda / Bruton doctrine, a trial court may generally not allow a jury in a joint criminal trial of a defendant and *23codefendant to hear the unredacted confession of the codefendant that also directly implicates the defendant-even if the jury is instructed not to consider the confession as evidence against the defendant. ( People v. Aranda (1965) 63 Cal.2d 518, 529-531, 47 Cal.Rptr. 353, 407 P.2d 265 ( Aranda ), abrogated in part by Cal. Const., art. I, § 28, subd. (d); Bruton v. United States (1968) 391 U.S. 123, 128-136, 88 S.Ct. 1620, 20 L.Ed.2d 476 ( Bruton ).) Such a…