''Doyle v. Ohio'', 426 U.S. 610 (1976), is a
United States Supreme Court case regarding the Due Process rights of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Holding
The Supreme Court held that the criminal defendant's silence in response to a
Miranda warning cannot be used to impeach them during cross examination.
In 1980 a similar case, ''
Jenkins v. Anderson'', reached the Supreme Court, its ruling distinguishing it from ''Doyle''. The Court ruled that the prosecution is permitted to exploit as
inculpatory evidence
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a defendant's failure to disclose an
exculpatory testimony eventually presented in
trial as defense, to government officials such as police in a prompt manner before the arrest. The petitioner in this case had committed murder and, weeks later, confessed to the crime but, in the process, embroidered the narrative by claiming
self-defense as the justification.
The prosecution mooted this during trial as evidence of guilt and
perjury. After
habeas corpus relief, the
Supreme Court
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upheld the conviction, recognizing no breach of the
Fourteenth Amendment.
[.]
''Salinas v. Texas'' (2013), a plurality opinion, held that mere silence during prearrest interrogations is inadequate to establish invocation of the right to remain silent, if the defendant has already chosen to speak. Specifically, if the defendant has elected to speak to police and then suddenly stops when confronted with inculpatory evidence, the defendant must explicitly invoke his right to remain silent in order for the silence not to be held against him.
See also
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List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 426
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Jenkins v. Anderson'',
References
Further reading
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External links
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United States Supreme Court cases
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Miranda warning case law
1976 in United States case law
Legal history of Ohio
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