Criminal – Felony Eluding – Fifth Amendment – Prosecutor Comment

By Deborah Elkins
Published: May 12, 2008

A prosecutor’s comment during closing argument about defendant not offering an explanation why he was hiding from police when he was discovered under a pile of laundry in the laundry room of his girlfriend’s mother’s house, was not an impermissible comment on defendant’s refusal to testify at his trial, and his conviction of felony eluding ...

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