The issue in this criminal appeal is whether a defendant's tacit admission by silence following a police officer's question in a noncustodial setting was erroneously admitted into evidence in violation of the constitutional protections afforded by the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution and Article I, Section 8 of the Virginia Constitution.
William Thomas Taylor was convicted of possessing...
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