Kenneth A. Fields v. Walter Leapley, Warden, South Dakota State Penitentiary Mark W. Barnett, Attorney General, State of South Dakota

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• concluding that Doyle violation was not harmless where certain factors were met, including a defense that “was not patently frivolous”
• holding that the government’s two references during closing to defendant’s invocation of his Miranda rights in order to impeach the credibility of his testimony at trial were not harmless error
• holding that the government’s two references during closing to defendant’s invocation of his Miranda rights in order to impeach the credibility of his testimony at trial were not harmless error

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