Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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Spillover
See EXTERNALITY.
spillover theory
The principle that a severance must be granted only when a defendant can show that trial with a codefendant would substantially prejudice the defendant's case, as when the jury might wrongly use evidence against the defendant. "The spillover theory involves the question of whether a jury's unfavorable impression of a defendant against whom the evidence is properly admitted will influence the way the jurors view a codefendant . . . . The test . . . is whether the jury can keep separate the evidence that is relevant to each defendant and render a fair and impartial verdict." 22A C.J.S. Criminal Law ยง 571, at 190-91 (1989).