Salinas v. Texas, No. 12-246 (U.S. Supreme Court) (570 U.S. 178; 133 S.Ct. 2174) (June 17, 2013) (Justice Alito)
In a decision that is noteworthy mostly for its continued erosion of criminal defendant’s Miranda rights, a plurality of the Court held that, in the context of a non-custodial, pre-arrest questioning, a person’s silence may be used against him absent an unequivocal invocation of his Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination. ...
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