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In Doyle v. Ohio (1976), 426 U.S. 610, 49 L. Ed. 2d 91, 96 S. Ct. 2240, the United States Supreme Court held that use of a defendant's post-arrest silence to impeach his exculpatory testimony offered for the first time at trial is a deprivation of due process of law. (Doyle v. Ohio (1976), 426 U.S. 610, 49 L. Ed. 2d 91, 96 S. Ct. 2240.) The court reasoned that silence following recitation of the Miranda warnings may be nothing more than the arrestee's exercise of those rights and, therefore, post-arrest silence is always 'insolubly ambiguous.' (Doyle, 426 U.S. at 617, 49 L. Ed. 2d at 97, 96 S. Ct. at 2244.) The Court further reasoned that implicit in the Miranda warnings is the promise that silence will carry no penalty should the accused invoke that right. (Doyle, 426 U.S. at 618, 49 L. Ed. 2d at 98, 96 S. Ct. at 2245.) Therefore, the Court concluded that it would be fundamentally unfair to permit use of such silence against the accused after inducing him to remain silent. (Doyle, 426 U.S. at 618, 49 L. Ed. 2d at 98, 96 S. Ct. at ...
