Commonwealth v. Easley

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• finding a prosecutor’s comment on a prior, admitted reference to silence, unconstitutionally “implied to the jury that Easley’s silence at the time of arrest was evidence of guilt”
• finding a prosecutor’s comment on a prior, admitted reference to silence, unconstitutionally “implied to the jury that Easley’s silence at the time of arrest was evidence of guilt”
• reversible error to permit district attorney to comment adversely on accused's silence during closing argument
• reversible error to permit district attorney to comment adversely on accused’s silence during closing argument
• trial court’s obvious constitutional error obviated need to address appellant’s additional allegations of trial court error
• failure to give cautionary instructions is reversible error

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).