United States Seventh Circuit

Trial counsel's failure to object to the use of petitioner's post-arrest silence is harmless error and does not constitute ineffective assistance of counsel under the Sixth Amendment where petitioner cannot demonstrate that the outcome of her trial would have been different.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/12/2001
• Published 04/12/2001

Judges

• RIPPLE, Circuit Judge., Before COFFEY, RIPPLE and ROVNER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Daniel M. Feeney (argued), Miller, Shekman & Hamilton, Chicago, IL, for petitioner-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• William L. Browers, Jay Hoffman (argued), Office of the Attorney General, Chicago, IL, for respondent-appellee.