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· 1/23/1996

State v. Zindel

Citations

  • 918 S.W.2d 239
  • 1996 Mo. LEXIS 4
  • 1996 WL 23619

How courts have described this case

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

  • finding plain error because of the prosecutor’s use of the defendant’s post-arrest silence to show sanity
  • comment on defendant’s exercise of right to remain silent as evidence of his sanity was plain error
  • key element in State’s case was that defendant’s assertion of right to remain silent was evidence that defendant was sane at the time of the crime was committed
  • comments on the defendant’s post-arrest silence
  • comments on the defendant's post-arrest silence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Limbaugh, Holstein, Benton, Price, Robertson, Covington, Shangler, White

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