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U.S. v. Mayfield, No. 98-50100 (9th Cir.) (189 F.3d 895) (August 26, 1999) (Judge Dorothy Wright Nelson)

Here the Court held that the trial court abused its discretion by failing to sever the trial of two defendants, where the codefendant presented a mutually exclusive defense and improper evidence that was improperly elicited.

In its decision the Court rejected the Government's claim that the Supreme Court's holding in ...

 

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