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Supreme Court declines retroactive ruling in silence testimony case
The Supreme Court, in a 5 to 2 decision read by Justice Potter Stewart, refused to apply retroactively a 1965 ruling about commenting on a defendant's silence in state trials. Edgar J. Shott Jr. of Cincinnati had been convicted of selling unregistered securities in Ohio and faced 1 to 5 years.
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