Sentence examples for failure to testify from inspiring English sources

Her absence and failure to testify in support of her complaint has temporarily benefited Mr. Trantino.

If the failure to testify at a previous trial were to amount to evidence that testimony at a subsequent trial was feigned or perjurious, the fact of failure to testify would always be admissible.

The party said the government released "deliberate lies" about Demydko when he was accused of failure to testify.

Raffel held that a defendant could be required upon testifying at a retrial, to disclose his failure to testify at the earlier trial.

By legislating against the creation of any 'presumption' from a failure to testify, Congress could not have meant to legislate against the psychological operation of the jury's mind.

The conviction was overturned when an appeals court found that Allgood had committed misconduct when he told the jury that the woman's failure to testify suggested her guilt.

See generally, Reeder, Comment Upon Failure of Accused to Testify, 31 Mich.L.Rev.

The District Court issued the writ, holding that the prosecutor's comment on the failure of petitioner to testify at his trial, made in violation of Griffin v. State of California, 380 U.S. 609, 85 S.Ct.

Thus, the state prosecutor's argument and the trial judge's instruction to the jury continuously and repeatedly impressed the jury that from the failure of petitioners to testify, to all intents and purposes, the inferences from the facts in evidence had to be drawn in favor of the State—in short, that by their silence petitioners had served as irrefutable witnesses against themselves.

The majority of the competency statutes of the States forbid comment by the prosecution on the failure of an accused to testify, and provide that no presumption of guilt should arise from his failure to take the stand.

1229, 14 L.Ed.2d 1965(1965), which forbade prosecutors and judges to comment adversely on the failure of a defendant to testify in a state criminal trial.