Francis Booton v. Dorothy W. Hanauer, Etc.

How courts have described this case

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• finding constitutional error where prosecutor introduced evidence of petitioner’s refusal to answer specific questions during a police interview
• prosecutor did not comment directly or indirectly on reference to silencem, judge gave cautionary instruction, and overwhelming inference of guilt could be drawn from admissible evidence
• prosecutor did not comment directly or indirectly on reference to silencem, judge gave cautionary instruction, and overwhelming inference of guilt could be drawn from admissible evidence
• conviction affirmed by state court in 1974

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).