Joseph Simmons v. State of Florida

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• acknowledging that no case “expressly addresses whether, absent custody or com- pelling circumstances, a defendant’s invocation of the right to silence may be introduced at trial as substantive evidence of the defendant’s guilt”
• evidence of out-of-court statements was not hearsay when admitted to show the effect on the listener, rather than for the truth of its content

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