United States v. Cecil L. Burson

How courts have described this case

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• finding that admission of evidence of defendant’s refusal to answer questions prior to arrest or Miranda warnings violated his right to remain silent
• finding the error harmless in part because reference to pre-arrest silence was “an afterthought” of testifying agent and had “little probative value”
• finding error in eliciting testimony of two Internal Revenue Service agents regarding the defendant’s silence but finding error harmless
• “[0]nce a defendant invokes his right to remain silent, it is impermissible for the prosecution to refer to any Fifth Amendment rights which defendant exercised.”
• \The invocation of the privilege against self-incrimination must be given a liberal construction.\
• admission into evidence of defendant’s pre-arrest, pre-Miranda refusal to answer questions constituted plain error

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).