United States v. Mario Herbert Gonzalez Caro

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• holding that prearrest silence cannot be used as substantive proof of guilt in the prosecution’s ease-in-chief
• holding that prearrest silence cannot be used as substantive proof of guilt in the prosecution’s case-in-chief
• holding that using the defendant’s pre-Miranda silence as evidence of guilt violated the Fifth Amendment
• noting in dicta “we have found no decision permitting the use of silence, even the silence of a suspect who has been given no Miranda warnings and is entitled to none, as part of the Government's direct case”

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