Puckett v. Epps, No. 09-70032 (5th Cir. 2011)
Annotate this CasePetitioner appealed the district court's denial of his petition for writ of habeas corpus relief where he was convicted of capital murder. At issue was whether the prosecution violated petitioner's due process rights by impeaching his post-Miranda silence under Doyle v. Ohio. The court held that the Mississippi Supreme Court did not unreasonably apply Doyle in finding that the state's questions were permissible when, in viewing the cross-examination in its entirety, the state court's finding that the prosecutor's intent was to elicit an explanation for a prior inconsistent statement was not unreasonable and when the closing argument relied almost exclusively on petitioner's post-arrest behavior, noting that he failed to tell his mother or anyone else about the murder during the two days in which he was running from the police.
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