Griffin v. California

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Griffin v. California, 380 U.S. 609 (1965), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled, by a 6-2 vote, that it is a violation of a defendant's Fifth Amendment rights for the prosecutor to comment to the jury on the defendant's declining to testify, or for the judge to instruct the jury that such silence is evidence of guilt. Warning: template has been deprecated.

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380 U.S. 609

Griffin v. California

Argued: March 9, 1965. --- Decided: April 28, 1965

See 381 U.S. 957, 85 S.Ct. 1797.

Morris Lavine, Los Angeles, Cal., for petitioner.

Albert W. Harris, Jr., San Francisco, Cal., for respondent.

Mr. Justice DOUGLAS delivered the opinion of the Court.

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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States federal government (see 17 U.S.C. 105).

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