The Sound of Silence: Evidentiary Analyses of Precustodial Silence in Light of Salinas v. Texas

• Autores: Lukas Mansour
• Localización: The journal of criminal law and criminology, ISSN 0091-4169, Vol. 105, Nº. 1, 2015, págs. 271-295
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In the recent Supreme Court case Salinas v. Texas, the Court declined to answer whether precustodial silence should be admissible as evidence of a defendant’s guilt. This Comment uses the case as an example from which it argues that courts should take a different approach to precustodial silence. Rather than examining a defendant’s precustodial silence from a constitutional perspective, as many courts, including the Supreme Court, have done, this Comment argues that courts would be better served examining this type of silence from an evidentiary perspective instead.