Commonwealth v. Wilkerson, J.

How courts have described this case

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

• “Because silence may mean something other than agreement or acknowledgement of guilt (it may mean inattention or perplexity, for instance), evidence of adoptive admissions by silence must be received and applied with caution.”
• “Because silence may mean something other than agreement or acknowledgment of guilt [it may mean inattention or perplexity, for instance], evidence of adoptive admissions by silence must be received and applied with caution”
• adoptive admissions include statements to which defendant responds by silence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).