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Portuondo Vs. Agard

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Mar 06, 2000

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  1. Pointer Vs. Texas US Supreme Court · Apr 05, 1965
  2. Perry Vs. Leeke US Supreme Court · Jan 10, 1989
  3. Fletcher Vs. Weir US Supreme Court · Mar 22, 1982
  4. Baxter Vs. Palmigiano US Supreme Court · Apr 20, 1976
  5. ChaffIn Vs. Stynchcombe US Supreme Court · May 21, 1973
  6. Rose Vs. Lundy US Supreme Court · Mar 03, 1982
  7. U.S. 61 (2000) October Term, 1999 Syllabus Portuondo, Superintendent, Fishkill Correctional Facility V. Agard
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  8. respondent's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights. The Court declines to extend to such comments the rationale of Griffin v. California
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  9. that of any 62 Syllabus other witness-a rule that serves the trial's truth-seeking function, Perry v. Leeke
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  10. them infirm. Nor does the fact that they came at summation rather than at a point earlier in the trial. In Reagan v. United
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  11. presence at trial because New York law requires him to be present. Respondent points to the Court's decision in Doyle v. Ohio
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  12. Court reversed one of the convictions for possession of a weapon but affirmed the remaining convictions. People v. Agard
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  13. App. Div. 2d 401, 606 N. Y. S. 2d 239 (2d Dept. 1993). The New York Court of Appeals denied leave to appeal. People v. Agard
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  14. his Sixth Amendment right to be present at trial and to be confronted with the witnesses against him, see Illinois v. Allen
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  15. U. S. 400 (1965), and his Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights to testify on his own behalf, see Rock v. Arkansas
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  16. boils down to a request that we extend to comments of the type the prosecutor made here the rationale of Griffin v. California
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  17. one in which the practice was so much as challenged until after our decision in Griffin. See, e. g., State v. Cassidy
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  18. People v. Buckey
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  19. Jenkins v. United
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  20. defendant's silence at trial against him-and upon request the court must instruct the jury to that effect. See Carter v. Kentucky
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  21. Ibid. (quoting People v. Modesto
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  22. see also United States v. Robinson
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  23. quoting Baxter v. Palmigiano
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  24. Brown v. United
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  25. U. S. 272 , 282 (1989). See also Reagan v. United
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  26. States, 157 U. S. 301 , 305 (1895). Respondent points to our opinion in Geders v. United
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  27. right to counsel. With respect to issues of credibility, however, no such special treatment has been accorded. Jenkins v. Anderson
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  28. that has the effect of discouraging the exercise of constitutional rights.''' Id., at 236 (quoting Chaffin v. Stynchcombe
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  29. just like any other witness.''' Jenkins, supra, at 235-236 (quoting Grunewald Indeed, in Brooks v. Tennessee
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  30. App. 25-27. What Reagan permitted-a generic 3 The dissent maintains that Reagan v. United
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  31. testify. Mter quoting the Court's description, in an earlier case, of the reasons for the statutory right, see Wilson v. United
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  32. at 613-614. It is eminently reasonable to consider that a questionable manner of constitutional exegesis, see Mitchell v. United
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  33. after the defense has closed is in a long tradition that continues to the present day. See, e. g., United States v. Jones
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  34. United States v. Hill
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  35. rights, it has already been disposed of by our determination that those Amendments were not infringed. Cf. Graham v. Connor
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  36. prosecution violated his right to due process by commenting on that presence. He asserts that our decision in Doyle v. Ohio
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  37. here (he asserts) had no choice but to be present at the trial. Though this is far from certain, see, e. g., People v. Aiken
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  38. of fundamental unfairness for which the Constitution requires that a state criminal conviction be set aside, cf. Rose v. Lundy
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  39. right into an automatic burden on his credibility. I dissent from the Court's disposition. In 77 Griffin v. California
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  40. we held that a defendant's refusal to testify at trial may not be used as evidence of his guilt. In Doyle v. Ohio
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  41. see also United States v. Chacko
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  42. their prior consistent statements but may introduce such statements to rebut claims of recent fabrication. See People v. McDaniel
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  43. The Court's only support for its choice to ignore the distinction between summation and cross-examination is Reagan v. United
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  44. did refer to the 1878 statute at issue in Reagan, but it did so only in connection with its discussion of Wilson v. United
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  45. and we have held that some provisions of the Sixth Amendment do not apply in petty prosecutions. See, e. g., Lewis v. United
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  46. that generic tailoring arguments have traditionally been thought unproblematic. Ante, at 65-66. 4 In Brooks v. Tennessee
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  47. prosecutors to make accusations of tailoring based on the defendant's constant attendance at trial. See, e. g., State v. Cassidy
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  48. State v. Jones
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  49. Hart v. United
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  50. State v. Hemingway
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