STATE v. HOYLE

No. 432A88.

382 S.E.2d 752 (1989)

325 N.C. 232

STATE of North Carolina v. Alton Reid HOYLE, Jr.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

September 6, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lacy H. Thornburg, Atty. Gen. by David F. Hoke, Associate Atty. Gen., Raleigh, for the State.

Elmore & Powell, P.A. by Bruce A. Elmore, Sr. and Shirley H. Brown, Asheville, for defendant-appellant.


WEBB, Justice.

We address first the defendant's assignment of error as to whether the court erred in allowing the prosecutor to ask certain questions regarding defendant's post-arrest silence.

At trial, the prosecutor repeatedly questioned Detectives Jenkins and Dayton and the defendant about whether the defendant had ever informed anyone that Terry Kicinski had attacked him on the night of the incident. The following are excerpted portions of the interchange...

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