State v. Ripa

How courts have described this case

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• error to permit on State’s case, as evidence of-guilt, testimony that defendant had refused to answer police questions about a homicide
• “[WJhen a defendant expressly refuses to answer, no inference can be drawn against him under the doctrine of acquiescence by silence or any other concept.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).