Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Cannon v. Texas

88 L. Ed. 2d 931

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1986-01-27
Topic
general

holding that comment was invited when defense counsel alluded to his client’s silence and then “referred to appellant’s knowledge ... that appellant knew he was facing two police officers” | State’s reference to motive is not reversible error if invited by defense counsel’s argument | defendant's claimed invocation of the right to counsel not made during any custodial interrogation | defendant’s claimed invocation of the right to counsel not made during any custodial interrogation | generally improper to consider evidence which points to defendant's guilt of some other offense

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Sup. Ct. Ill. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 85-5687, 691 S. W. 2d 664; No. 85-5825, 692 S. W. 2d 686; No. 85-5946, 108 Ill. 2d 70, 483 N. E. 2d 250.