United States v. Maurice v. Gant

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that, while “the reason for an arrestee’s post-Miranda silence is [usually] insolubly ambiguous,” a defendant may open the door to impeachment with silence “by his own remarks about his post-arrest behavior or by defense counsel’s questioning”
• recognizing that, while “the reason for an arrestee’s post-Miranda silence is [usually] insolubly ambiguous,” a defendant may open the door to impeachment with silence “by his own remarks about his post-arrest behavior or by defense - 15 - counsel’s questioning”
• government crossed the fine fine between impeachment and inference of guilt, but error harmless
• “[T]he less believable the defense, . . . the more likely the conclusion that the constitutional error did not contribute to the conviction.” (citation omitted)
• “[T]he less believable the 9 defense, . . . the more likely the conclusion that the constitutional error did not contribute to the conviction.”
• “[T]he government may use [a] defendant’s silence for the limited purpose of impeaching his testimony; it may not argue that the defendant’s silence is inconsistent with his claim of innocence.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).