Peters v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the challenged testimony of the defendant’s silence was harmless in part because the evidence of the defendant’s guilt was strong, the references were brief, and the prosecution did not emphasize the defendant’s silence in closing arguments
• stating that a conviction may rest on circumstantial evidence alone
• “[P]ost-arrest, pre- Miranda silence cannot be used as substantive evidence in the State’s case-in- chief.”
• “[P]ost-arrest, pre-Miranda silence cannot be used as substantive evidence in the State’s case-in-chief.”
• circumstantial evidence established that defendant illegally possessed a firearm

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Drakkar R. Willis v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2015-03-24· cited 98×
• Larry C. Perry, Jr. v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2017-05-11· cited 95×
• Derrick Weedman v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2014-11-26· cited 62×
• Delmar Kelly v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2019-05-22· cited 9×
• Drakkar R. Willis v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2014-07-11· cited 1×
• Patrick Austin v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2012-12-21· cited 1×
• John Ludack v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2012-04-25
• Lamont Hudgins v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2015-12-30
• Nahamani Sargent v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2017-01-30
• Mark A. Price v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2017-01-30
• Reginald Blackburn v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2018-08-01
• Marquelle Smith v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2018-09-28
• Clarence Boris Miller v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2019-07-29
• Justin C. Gray v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2020-03-03
• Dexter O. Goodwin II v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2025-09-12
• Carlos Bryant v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2025-11-17
• Ryan Matthew Gluys v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2026-02-25