THORNBERRY, Circuit Judge:
In this challenge to her conviction for importation and possession of cocaine, Joan Johnson (defendant below) asserts that in the prosecution's case in chief, prosecution witnesses improperly commented on her post-arrest silence. We reverse and remand, finding certain testimony to have been admitted improperly.
Defendant had been in Panama for about six days at the end of January 1976, in the company of her young son and another...
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