Richard Bradford v. Walter T. Stone

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• defense counsel, by dwelling on justifications for silence, opened door for prosecutor to suggest contrary inferences
• harmless error when evidence against defendant overwhelming and alibi inconclusive and uncorroborated
• “Although the intermediate state court did not pass unequivocally on the merits of the federal claim, we have chosen to assume the state's failure to rest exclusively upon the procedural default permits us to reach the federal question”

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