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Court: Silence not enough to invoke ‘Miranda’ right
WASHINGTON — In a major ruling Monday on the breadth of pre-arrest Miranda protections, the U.S. Supreme Court held in a splintered decision that the silence of a person being voluntarily questioned by police can be introduced at trial if the subject did not specifically assert his or her right to remain silent to police.