TATE, Circuit Judge:
The issue before us is one of first impression: May the custodial confession of a non-testifying, separately tried coconspirator/codefendant, insofar as the confessor directly implicates an accused in the crime charged, be admitted into evidence against the accused as a statement against the confessor's penal interest under Fed.R.Ev. 804(b)(3)? We hold that it may not, and we reverse this conviction wherein the coconspirator's confession, introduced...
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