United States v. George Horacio Lorenzo

WALLACE, Circuit Judge:

Lorenzo was convicted of possessing and attempting to pass counterfeit United States currency in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 471 (1970). He raises four questions on this appeal: Whether there was a violation of his due process rights when a government agent testified that Lorenzo remained silent in the face of an accusatory question during a post-Miranda warnings interrogation; whether the granting of a mistrial and subsequent retrial was double jeopardy; whether reversible error was committed in the failure to give certain requested jury instructions; and whether the…