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ADAMS v. STATE

Nos. 82-1643, 82-2258.

445 So.2d 1132 (1984)

James ADAMS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee. Nicholas PASSARELLA, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

March 2, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerry Hill, Public Defender, and L.S. Alperstein, Asst. Public Defender, Bartow, for appellant Adams.

A.R. Mander, III, of Greenfelder & Mander, P.A., Dade City, for appellant Passarella.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, Davis G. Anderson, Jr., and William I. Munsey, Jr., Asst. Attys. Gen., Tampa, for appellee.

GRIMES, Acting Chief Judge.

This appeal highlights problems which are often encountered when confessions are introduced into evidence in a joint criminal trial.

Appellants Adams and Passarella were charged with the first degree murder of James Wylie. The appellants unsuccessfully sought to sever their trials on the premise that the state intended to introduce confessions of each of them which implicated the other...

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