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United States Vs. Robinson

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Feb 24, 1988

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  9. U.S. 25 (1988) U.S. Supreme Court United States v. Robinson
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  10. U.S. 25 (1988) United States v. Robinson
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  11. inference from a defendant's silence, or to treat the defendant's silence as substantive evidence of guilt, Griffin v. California
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  12. F.2d 1095, 1096, 1097 (1983) (citing Griffin v. California
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  13. U. S. 609 (1965), and Wilson v. United
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  14. certiorari, vacated that judgment of the Court of Appeals, and remanded for reconsideration in light of United States v. Young
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  15. we conclude that there was no constitutional error at all, we do not reach the plain error issue. In Griffin v. California
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  16. between the sort of comments involved in Griffin and the comments involved in this case. In Baxter v. Palmigiano
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  17. Lakeside v. Oregon
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  18. comment must be examined in context is illustrated by our treatment of a Fifth Amendment claim in Lockett v. Ohio
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  19. United States v. Young
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  20. purpose of a criminal trial is to decide the factual question of the defendant's guilt or innocence, United States v. Nobles
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  21. Delaware v. Van
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  22. See Wilson v. United
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  23. See Griffin v. California
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  24. see also United States v. Hasting
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  25. In United States v. Young
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  26. and Darden v. Wainwright
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  27. I agree with JUSTICE MARSHALL when he concludes that the prosecutor's comments constituted error under Griffin v. California
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  28. analysis, as I read it, may be attributable to confusion generated by this Court's recent opinion in United States v. Young
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  29. U. S. 157 , 297 U. S. 159 -160 (1936). See also United States v. Frady
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  30. it generally has avoided articulating a strict formula for other courts to follow in applying the doctrine. Cf. Engle v. Isaac
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  31. standard for prejudice used to determine whether properly preserved constitutional errors are harmless. See Chapman v. California
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  32. Accounting for the constitutional magnitude of the error is, of course, appropriate. See Weems v. United
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  33. United States v. Young
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  34. applied by some Courts of Appeals in assessing whether nonconstitutional errors are harmless, see, e.g., United States v. Davis
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  35. F.2d 637, 640 (CA4 1981) (citing Kotteakos v. United
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  36. or to the standard alluded to in JUSTICE STEVENS' dissent in United States v. Young
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  37. But however slight the impact of today's decision, the Court's faithlessness to the bright-line rules of Griffin v. California
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  38. U. S. 609 (1965), and Wilson Page 485 U. S. 38 v. United
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  39. which we construed in Wilson v. United
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  40. Burt v. New
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  41. U.S. at 149 U. S. 65 . See also Lakeside v. Oregon
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  42. defendant's failure to testify occasions a reversal of an ensuing conviction. This Court recognized as much in Chapman v. California
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  43. barred his client from testifying at trial. But this Court set out the framework for that evaluation in United States v. Young
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  44. impediment to the jury's truthfinding function that the Court finds irksome is a matter of precious design. See Mackey v. United
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  45. citing Tehan v. United
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  46. United States v. Hasting
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  47. Mackey v. United
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  48. United States v. Jackson
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  49. F.2d 1095, 1096 (1983). That statement varies only subtly, if at all, from the bald references condemned in Griffin v. California
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  50. and Wilson v. United
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