Doyle v. Ohio

Doyle (defendant) was charged with selling marijuana to an informant. At trial, he offered a version of events contradicting the prosecution's case; on cross-examination, the prosecutor asked why Doyle had never told the arresting officer this version of events after his arrest. Doyle's objections to this line of questioning were overruled, and he was convicted; his conviction was upheld in state court, and the U.S. Supreme Court took the case to decide whether using post-arrest silence this way violates due process.