98-KH-0916 | La. | Mar 19, 1999
STATE ex rel. Michael WALKER
v.
STATE of Louisiana.
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
*1179 PER CURIAM.[*]
Writ granted in part; otherwise denied; case remanded to the district court. The district court is ordered to appoint counsel for relator and hold a hearing at which it will determine whether the state's use of his silence at a preliminary hearing to impeach the testimony he subsequently offered at trial violated the rule of Doyle v. Ohio, 426 U.S. 610" court="SCOTUS" date_filed="1976-06-17" href="https://app.midpage.ai/document/doyle-v-ohio-109491?utm_source=webapp" opinion_id="109491">426 U.S. 610, 96 S. Ct. 2240, 49 L. Ed. 2d 91 (1976) and had a substantial and injurious effect on the jury's verdict. See Brecht v. Abrahamson, 507 U.S. 619" court="SCOTUS" date_filed="1993-06-07" href="https://app.midpage.ai/document/brecht-v-abrahamson-112845?utm_source=webapp" opinion_id="112845">507 U.S. 619, 634-38, 113 S. Ct. 1710" court="SCOTUS" date_filed="1993-06-07" href="https://app.midpage.ai/document/brecht-v-abrahamson-112845?utm_source=webapp" opinion_id="112845">113 S. Ct. 1710, 1720-22, 123 L. Ed. 2d 353" court="SCOTUS" date_filed="1993-06-07" href="https://app.midpage.ai/document/brecht-v-abrahamson-112845?utm_source=webapp" opinion_id="112845">123 L. Ed. 2d 353 (1993). Trial counsel's objection on relevancy grounds adequately preserved the issue for review. See Doyle, 426 U.S. 610" court="SCOTUS" date_filed="1976-06-17" href="https://app.midpage.ai/document/doyle-v-ohio-109491?utm_source=webapp" opinion_id="109491">426 U.S. at 632, 96 S.Ct. at 2251 (Stevens, J., dissenting) (defendant's silence at preliminary examination "probably attributable to [advice of] counsel" and so wholly irrelevant to defendant's credibility); see also State v. Duke, 362 So. 2d 559" court="La." date_filed="1978-09-05" href="https://app.midpage.ai/document/state-v-duke-1789625?utm_source=webapp" opinion_id="1789625">362 So. 2d 559, 561 (La.1978); State v. Rosette, 94-1075, p. 3 (La.App.3rd Cir. 3/22/95), 653 So. 2d 80" court="La. Ct. App." date_filed="1995-03-22" href="https://app.midpage.ai/document/state-v-rosette-1154803?utm_source=webapp" opinion_id="1154803">653 So. 2d 80, 81. In all other respects the application is denied.
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[*] Victory, J., not on panel. See La.S.Ct.Rule IV, Part II, § 3.