ISSUE PRESENTED: Whether the admission, at the joint trial of the defendant and his non-testifying co-defendant, of the co-defendant’s Grand Jury testimony denying any knowledge of criminal activity, violated the Bruton rule; whether the Grand Jury testimony was “facially incriminating” to defendant. (Assigned counsel for respondent: David Klem & Robert S. Dean, Center for Appellate Litigation, 120 Wall Street, 28th Floor, NYC 10005.)