Burns v. Sears Roebuck & Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that the Fifth Amendment “does not impose a prima facie bar against any mention of a defendant’s silence.”
• opining that “the privilege against self-incrimination is irrelevant to a citizen’s decision to remain silent when he or she is under no official compulsion to speak”
• opining that “the privilege against self-incrimination is irrelevant to a citizen's decision to remain silent when he or she is under no official compulsion to speak”
• stating that “a defendant’s failure to object to allegedly improper testimony at the appropriate stage in the questioning of the witness constitutes waiver.” (citation and quotation marks omitted)
• “it is ‘well- settled that a defendant’s failure to object to allegedly improper testimony at the appropriate stage in the questioning of the witness constitutes waiver’”
• “[I]t is well-settled that a defendant’s failure to -8- J-S72003-17 object to allegedly improper testimony at the appropriate stage in the questioning of the witness constitutes waiver.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).