United States Seventh Circuit

When a defendant refuses to answer any of plaintiff's discovery requests on the basis of the 5th Amendment and makes no attempt to amend those responses prior to testifying to the same matters at trial, the plaintiff has a right to refer to the earlier silence.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/03/2001
• Decided 09/21/2001
• Published 09/21/2001

Judges

• KANNE, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, KANNE, and ROVNER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David Odom (argued), Chicago, IL, for Thomas E. Harris., Meera Werth (argued), Office of the Corporation Counsel, App. Div., Chicago, IL, for City of Chicago., Sheldon Nagelberg, Chicago, IL, for Alex D. Ramos.