Legal Opinion
United States v. George Evans Harp, Edwin R. Breaux, Jean Orsini, Willard Joseph Martin, Dongarriga Chapman, and Elvin Edsel Haddock
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided May 30, 1975No. 74-1810PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CLARK, Circuit Judge:
The right to remain silent and the use of that silence for impeachment of inconsistent trial testimony are not necessarily antithetic or mutually exclusive values. Appellants were tried for and convicted of attempted escape. Proof of and pros-ecutorial comment on the failure of the appellants from the time of apprehension to the time of trial, to apprise any official that all but one claimed to have been kidnapped by that one was permissible.
On March 9, 1973, an inspector at the United States Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, was making his final inspection of a railroad…
2Cases cited23 opinions
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3Cited by13 opinions
- Don Garriga Chapman v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1977
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- State v. DeatoreSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1976
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- John Allen Minor v. Harold E. Black, SuperintendentCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1975
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