Legal Opinion
Greer v. Miller
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided September 21, 1987No. 85-2064PublishedCited by 1,060 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Powell
The question before us is whether a prosecutor’s question at trial concerning a criminal defendant’s postarrest silence requires reversal of the defendant’s conviction.
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In 1980, Neil Gorsuch was kidnaped, robbed, and murdered after leaving a bar in Jacksonville, Illinois. Three men were charged, with the crimes: Randy Williams, Clarence Armstrong, and the respondent, Charles Miller. Williams confessed, and later entered into a plea agreement under which most of the charges against him were dropped in return for his testimony at the separate trials of Armstrong and Miller.
At Miller’s trial,…
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