United States v. Jones

KERN, Associate Judge:

In April 1980 a grand jury indicted appel-lees Jones and Britt for first-degree murder of a shopkeeper during the commission of an armed robbery in southwest Washington. At the same time, in a separate case, the grand jury indicted appellees Jones and Bryant for first-degree murder of a citizen on the street during the commission of an armed robbery in northwest Washington.

In the course of the preliminary proceedings normally attendant upon a felony murder case, each appellee in each case filed a motion for severance from his particular codefendant. It was urged in…