Robert McGahee v. Raymond D. Massey, Superintendent, Union Correctional Institution

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• \A defendant cannot have it both ways. . . . [He may not] testify in attack . . . and at the same time seek refuge behind the shield of the Fifth Amendment.\
• “[T]he law does not provide a sword by which the defendant may selectively testify as to the merits of his prosecution, yet shield himself from com- ment on his failure to explain incriminating evidence properly admitted prior to his testimony.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).