Shea, J., concurring. I write separately to express my reservations concerning one wholly superfluous sentence in the majority opinion: “It would be entirely reasonable to conclude that the principle of harmless error may be inconsistent with the unconditional language of the statute that the legislature has enacted for the protection of the right not to testify.” That sentence, though equivocal, is likely to be construed as a…
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