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Bruton Vs. United States

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  • US Supreme Court
  • May 20, 1968

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  1. Throckmorton Vs. Holt US Supreme Court · Mar 26, 1901
  2. Pointer Vs. Texas US Supreme Court · Apr 05, 1965
  3. Barber Vs. Page US Supreme Court · Apr 23, 1968
  4. Bruton v. United
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  5. States - 391 U.S. 123 (1968) U.S. Supreme Court Bruton v. United
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  6. States, 391 U.S. 123 (1968) Bruton v. United
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  7. against him, but affirmed petitioner's conviction in view of the trial judge's instructions, relying on Delli Paoli v. United
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  8. petitioner's right of cross-examination secured by the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment. Delli Paoli v. United
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  9. BRENNAN delivered the opinion of the Court. This case presents the question, last considered in Delli Paoli v. United
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  10. this Court has effectively repudiated its basic premise. Before discussing this, we pause to observe that, in Pointer v. Texas
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  11. Id. at 380 U. S. 406 -407. We applied Pointer in Douglas v. Alabama
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  12. of a New York rule which submitted to the jury the question of the voluntariness of the confession itself. Jackson v. Denno
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  13. also cited in the Jackson note, is the statement of Mr. Justice Jackson in his concurring opinion in Krulewitch v. United
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  14. U. S. 130 The significance of Jackson for Dell Paoli was suggested by Chief Justice Traynor in People v. Arand
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  15. Nash v. United
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  16. the answer to this argument was cogently stated by Judge Lehman of the New York Court of Appeals, dissenting in People v. Fisher
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  17. Lutwak v. United
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  18. Hopt v. Utah
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  19. will follow the trial judge's instructions to disregard such information. Nevertheless, as was recognized in Jackson v. Lenno
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  20. so vital to the defendant, that the practical and human limitations of the jury system cannot be ignored. Compare Hopt v. Utah
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  21. Mora v. United
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  22. Holt v. United
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  23. inculpating petitioner in determining petitioner's guilt. But that was also true in the analogous situation in Jackson v. Denno
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  24. right of cross-examination. The effect is the same as if there had been no instruction at all. See Anderson v. United
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  25. Burgett v. Texas
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  26. Reversed. MR. JUSTICE BLACK concurs in the result for the reasons stated in the dissent in Delli Paoli v. United
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  27. The trial began June 20, 1966, one week after the decision in Miranda v. Arizona
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  28. on the question of the admissibility in evidence of the postal inspector's testimony as to Evans' admissions. Johnson v. New
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  29. and were therefore inadmissible under Westover v. United
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  30. inculpating petitioner was clearly inadmissible against him under traditional rules of evidence, see Krulewitch v. United
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  31. Fiswick v. United
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  32. intimate no view whatever that such exceptions necessarily raise questions under the Confrontation Clause. See Pointer v. Texas
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  33. Mattox v. United
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  34. instruction as inevitably sufficient to avoid the setting aside of convictions. See, e.g., United States ex rel. Floyd v. Wilkins
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  35. United States v. Bozza
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  36. Greenwell v. United
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  37. Jones v. United
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  38. Barton v. United
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  39. Hill v. Deegan
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  40. F.2d at 215. State decisions which have rejected Delli Paoli include People v. Aranda
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  41. State v. Young
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  42. N.J. 152, 215 A.2d 352. See also People v. Barbaro
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  43. State v. Rosen
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  44. See Pointer v. Texas
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  45. Dale v. United
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  46. a jury consider only relevant and competent evidence bearing on the issue of guilt or innocence. See, e.g., Blumenthal v. United
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  47. United States v. Gottfried
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  48. Delli Paoli v. United
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  49. United States v. Grunewald
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  50. U.S. Supreme Court Bruton v. United
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