Petition of the day
By Kate Howard
on May 9, 2017
Thepetition of the day is:
16-1063
Issues:(1) Whether the government violated the petitioners’ Fifth Amendment rights by using their post-arrest, pre-Miranda v. Arizona-warnings silence as substantive evidence of their guilt in the government’s case-in-chief; and (2) whether the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act may constitutionally be applied in a foreign-bounded case involving the foreign transport of drugs to foreign shores by foreign residents on a foreign vessel, without a sufficient nexus to the United States.
Posted in Cases in the Pipeline
Cases: Wilchcombe v. United States
Recommended Citation:
Kate Howard,
Petition of the day,
SCOTUSblog (May. 9, 2017, 12:00 AM),
https://www.scotusblog.com/2017/05/petition-of-the-day-1150/