State v. Shuler

Syllabus

Whether a criminal defendant forfeits their Fifth Amendment right to silence when they give pretrial notice of an affirmative defense under N.C.G.S. 15A-905(c)(1) whether the State is permitted to elicit testimony on a defendant's silence during its case-in-chief for the purposes of impeachment based solely on the defendant's pretrial notice of an affirmative defense.