Monthly Archives: February 2012

Minnesota Court of Appeals Allows Silence as Evidence of Guilt

This week the Minnesota Court of Appeals took the Borg case, allowing the use of pre-arrest, pre-Miranda, and pre-counsel silence as evidence against an accused one step further, and decided that it was ok for the government to use a defendant’s post arrest silence as evidence of guilt. The case, State v. Johnson, rests...

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