The statements of a severed, nontestifying codefendant were properly admitted as declarations against penal interest. These carefully redacted statements were admitted to establish elements of the crime and did not identify defendant as a participant. The statements were strictly limited to matters that were clearly against the declarant's penal interest, as well as matters that defendant requested to be restored after the court had redacted them. Although the declarant was...
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