Commonwealth v. Gbur

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• holding mistrial not required where the reference to the defendant’s silence was in a non-responsive statement by a witness, not purposefully elicited by the prosecutor, and addressed by the court with an immediate curative instruction
• no misconduct on the part of the district attorney where he did not refer to the defendant’s silence in any question directed to any witness
• no misconduct on the part of the district attorney where he did not refer to the defendant's silence in any question directed to any witness
• no misconduct where prosecutor did not refer to defendant’s silence, in question directed to witness
• “[T]he reference was an inadvertent slip by the witness that was not purposely elicited or exploited by the prosecutor.”
• “[T]he reference was an inadvertent slip by the witness that was not purposely elicited or exploited by the prosecutor.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).