United States v. George Evans Harp, Edwin R. Breaux, Jean Orsini, Willard Joseph Martin, Don Garriga Chapman and Elvin Edsel Haddock

The Supreme Court has remanded this criminal appeal with directions to reconsider our affirmances of the convictions of defendants Breaux and Harp for the crime of escape in light of the Court’s intervening decision in United States v. Hale, 422 U.S. 171, 95 S.Ct. 2133, 45 L.Ed.2d 99 (1975). 1 Notwithstanding what portent Hale may have held, the recent decision in Doyle v. Ohio, - U.S. -, 96 S.Ct. 2240, 49 L.Ed.2d 1, 44 U.S.L.W. 4902 (1976), mandates that we find that the prosecutor’s comments on the post-arrest silence of Breaux and Harp constitute reversible error and we remand for a new…