Morris Morgan v. Frank A. Hall, Etc.

How courts have described this case

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

• “[i]n no case has a prompt and forceful instruction alone been held sufficient to vitiate the use of post-arrest silence”
• defense counsel only exposed fact of silence, but prosecutor improperly used evidence to undermine defendant’s story
• prosecutorial questioning of defendant concerning exercise of Miranda right to silence
• improper testimony was calculated to damage defense
• harmless error when overwhelming evidence of guilt
• harmless error when overwhelming evidence of guilt

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).