Definition: In this task, you will be shown a prompt from a judicial decision and multiple holding statements derived from citations following text in a legal decision. Holdings represent the governing legal rule when the law is applied to a particular set of facts. There are five answer choices for each citing text. The correct answer is the holding statement that corresponds to the citing text. The four incorrect answers are other holding statements. You should find the correct option. There is a <HOLDING> token in the position of the citing text prompt where the holding statement was extracted.
Input: with the independent evidence being offered against him. In essence, it is alleged that the convictions rested upon an unlawful cumulation of evidence, and that had there been separate trials, the appellants would not have been convicted. . . . [citations omitted] Weighing this possibility of prejudice 'against the interests of economy and expedition in judicial administration', we do not find an abuse of discretion in the denial of a severance . . . [citations omitted]." 406 F.2d at 933, 934, 935. The judgment and sentence appealed from are Affirmed. 1 . Counts 1 through 35 charged violations of the mail fraud statute, Title 18, U.S.C., Section 1341. Count 36 charged a conspiracy under Title 18, U.S.C., Section 812, cert. denied 1956, 351 U.S. 966, 76 S.Ct. 1025, 100 L.Ed. 1486 (<HOLDING>) ; Collins v. United States, 9 Cir. 1946, 157
Holding statements: (A) holding that delay is waived when the defendant fails to object when a continu ance is granted (B) holding that when a district court fails to provide reasons for imposing special conditions and the defendant fails to object we review for plain error (C) holding that an accused cannot sustain a speedytrial claim when delay results from his making dilatory pleadings or motions failing to object when a continuance is granted the government (D) holding that delay is waived when the defendant makes dilatory pleadings and motions (E) holding that an issue is waived when a party fails to provide adequate citation to authority
Output:
(A)