In Samia v. United States, decided June 23, the Supreme Court (6-3) held there was no violation of the Confrontation Clause when the prosecutor introduced at a joint trial of several defendants a confession by one of the defendants that referred to a co-defendant’s participation in the crime, albeit not by name, and the judge instructed the jury not to consider the confession against the co-defendant.

The decision by the conservative majority was not unexpected. The opinion was written by Justice Clarence Thomas; Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented.

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