United States v. Vernon Bonner

How courts have described this case

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• observing that “it would not serve the criminal justice system to allow defendants to use the Fifth Amendment as both a shield and as a sword, answering questions selectively and preventing the prosecution from mentioning such selectiveness at trial”
• “The government suggests we need not consider Bonner’s argument for the simple reason that he (continued...
• “[T]he law does not provide a sword by which the defendant may selectively testify as to the merits of his prosecution, yet shield himself from comment on his failure to explain incriminating evidence properly admitted prior to his testimony.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).