CONANT

v.

UNITED STATES

Citator

Cited By (19 total)

• Monroe v. State, 396 So. 2d 241 (Fla. 3d DCA 1981)
  …cluding the recent decision of Washington v. State, 388 So. 2d 1042 (Fla. 5th DCA 1980) the comment was actually made and the offending question was answered. The state aptly points to Pineda v. Florida, 564 F. 2d 1163 (5th Cir. 1977), cert. denied, 436 U.S. 909, 98 S.Ct. 2245, 56 L.Ed.2d 409 (1978) where an analogous problem occurred. In Pineda, the defendant claimed constitutional error from questions propounded but also unanswered to which there were sustained objections. We quote extensively from Pineda…
• United States v. Augustus Charles Bobo, 586 F.2d 355 (5th Cir. 1978)
  …ircuit has held that a redaction to replace the defendant’s name with “blank” is not enough if the jury would be compelled by other evidence in the case to infer that the defendant was “blank.” Hodges v. Rose, 570 F. 2d 643 (6th Cir.), cert, denied, 436 U.S. 909, 98 S.Ct. 2244, 56 L.Ed.2d 408 (1978). Because we decide that any error here was harmless, we need not resolve this issue. . Rowan was the only other person specifically named in the statement. . As read to the jury, Willet’s statement said that…
• United States v. Venerando German Serrano, 607 F.2d 1145 (5th Cir. 1979)
  …est silence never elicited. The question could have been answered “yes” and “no,” and, standing alone, it is not so suggestive as to constitute comment on defendant’s silence. Pineda v. State of Florida, 564 F. 2d 1163 (5th Cir. 1977), cert. denied, 436 U.S. 909, 98 S.Ct. 2245, 56 L.Ed.2d 409 (1978). The Government in its final rebuttal argument, referring to a defense theory advanced during defendants’ final arguments, questioned in the following manner defendants’ failure to relate the same explanation t…