Legal Opinion
Tortolito v. State
Wyoming Supreme Court
Decided August 18, 1995No. 92-237PublishedCited by 58 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GOLDEN, C.J., delivers the opinion of the Court; THOMAS, J., files a dissenting opinion.
GOLDEN, Chief Justice.
In Tortolito v. State, 885 P.2d 864 (Wyo. 1994), a divided court affirmed Joseph Steven Tortolito’s (Tortolito) conviction and sentence for robbery. We granted Tortolito’s petition for rehearing and heard reargument on March 14, 1995.
We withdraw our earlier opinion, reverse the conviction and sentence for impermissible prosecutorial comments upon Tortolito’s pre-arrest silence, and remand for a new trial.
FACTS
On January 20, 1992, a passenger at the Greyhound bus station in Cheyenne…
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