Commonwealth v. Johnson

OPINION

PACKEL, Judge.

The potential use or abuse of redaction 1 to permit the use of confessions of co-defendants in a joint criminal trial was pointed out in Bruton v. United States, 391 U.S. 123, 88 S.Ct. 1620, 20 L.Ed.2d 476 (1968). Counsel for the appellant refers to the absence in this jurisdiction of appellate authority dealing with redaction, and asks the Court to hold that redaction should not be allowed because it can never be done in such a manner as to protect a defendant. In the alternative, the request is made that we should hold that the manner in which the redaction was done in…