United States v. Alton R. Fairchild

How courts have described this case

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• noting in both cases that the defendant was clearly claiming cooperation with the police
• “[h]aving . . . raised the question of his cooperation with the law enforcement authorities, [the defendant] opened the door to a full and not just a selective development of that subject”
• defendant’s testimony that he had cooperated with the police held to have opened the door to prosecutor’s questioning police regarding defendant’s post-arrest silence
• evidence of silence admissible to rebut impression defendant created with jury that he had fully cooperated with investigators
• “the jurors are entitled to give [defendant’s explanation] whatever weight they feel it deserves”
• 'After (defendant) had been informed that he had the right not to speak until his lawyer was present he did what a reasonable man could be expected to do--he remained silent'

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).