Bruton violation
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 402 U.S. 622 - Nelson v. O'NEIL · 1971Most cited · 957 citing opinions
The Constitution as construed in Bruton is violated only where the out-of-court hearsay statement is that of a declarant who is unavailable at the trial for 'full and effective' cross-examination.
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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Bruton violation” — 957 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.