People v. Khan
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Lawrence, J.
The issue to be decided on these five appeals is whether the defendants were denied their right to confrontation and to a fair trial when the redacted confessions of two nontestifying defendants were admitted into evidence at their joint trials. I conclude that the confessions were not sufficiently redacted, so that, when coupled with other testimony adduced at trial, those confessions inferentially incriminated the nonconfessing codefendants. With respect to the defendants Farook Khan and Tauqeer Gul, this error was not harmless and their convictions must be…
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