ALDRICH, Chief Judge. In 1965 we held that for the government to say, in summation to the jury, that certain of its evidence was “uneontradieted,” when contradiction would have required the defendant to take the stand, drew attention to his failure to do so, and hence was unconstitutional comment. Desmond v. United States, 1 Cir., 1…
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