In his opening to the jury, the prosecutor stated that a detective would testify as to a statement given by Bell which implicated his codefendants, whom the prosecutor then named. When the detective took the stand to testify as to Bell's statement, the court ordered him, in the absence of the jury, to omit the names of the codefendants and to refer to them only as friends of Bell's. The detective them repeated Bell's confession, eliminating the names of the codefendants....
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