Cruz v. New York
United States Supreme Court
481 U.S. 186 (1987)
At Eulogio Cruz's (defendant's) joint trial with his brother Benjamin for felony murder, the prosecution introduced Benjamin's videotaped confession implicating Eulogio, with the jury instructed not to consider it against Eulogio; a friend's testimony recounting Eulogio's own separate confession, corroborating many of Benjamin's details, was the only other evidence against Eulogio, and he was convicted.
Whether a defendant is deprived of his rights under the Confrontation Clause when his codefendant's incriminating confession is introduced at their joint trial, even though the jury is instructed to consider the codefendant's confession only against the codefendant, where the defendant's own incriminating statement is also introduced and corroborates his codefendant's statement.