By his petition for writ of habeas corpus, the defendant invites this court to travel along a time line of existing Supreme Court decisions concerning a prosecutor's ability to comment on a defendant's silence. Specifically, we have been asked to find that a prosecutor is prohibited from questioning or commenting on the defendant's failure to provide an exculpatory explanation when confronted by police...
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