Court Opinion

ID: 9468902
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 02:26:30.544411+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:41:06.512854
License: Public Domain

CLARK, Circuit Judge,
specially concurring:
I concur in the result, but would not decide the case on the Fifth Amendment Constitutional issue. The conviction is logically affirmed on the “invited error” or waiver rule. No objection to the prosecutor’s argument was asserted by the defense. The defense broached the issue of silence by cross-examining the police about why defendant was not asked where the purse was located. Then counsel argued to the jury that the police should have inquired into the location of the purse. (See text accompanying notes 2-6, majority opinion.) However, the majority holds that a person in his own home is not in custodial detention while the police search the house pursuant to a search warrant. This is completely unnecessary in reaching.a decision in this case.