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U.S. v. ZACCARIA

No. 00-1317.

240 F.3d 75 (2001)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Marc A. ZACCARIA, a/k/a Matt Shavone, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided February 14, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward J. Romano, by appointment of the court, for appellant.

Donald C. Lockhart, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Margaret E. Curran, United States Attorney, and Richard W. Rose, Assistant United States Attorney, were on brief, for appellee.

Before Selya, Circuit Judge, Coffin, Senior Circuit Judge, and Lipez, Circuit Judge.

SELYA, Circuit Judge.

This appeal requires us to determine, for the first time, the extent to which a prospective witness's silence after receiving Miranda warnings can be used as impeachment evidence. Finding no error in the district court's exclusion of this evidence or in either of the other rulings challenged on appeal, we affirm the judgment of conviction.

I. BACKGROUND

The parties, ably represented, have provided us with an exegetic...

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