California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Jennings, 114 Cal.Rptr.3d 133, 237 P.3d 474, 50 Cal.4th 616 (Cal. 2010):
him an opportunity to hear, understand, and to reply, and which do not lend themselves to an inference that he was relying on the right of silence guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, and he fails to speak, or he makes an evasive or equivocal reply, both the accusatory statement and the fact of silence or equivocation may be offered as an implied or adoptive admission of guilt. ( People v. Preston (1973) 9 Cal.3d 308, 313-314, 107 Cal.Rptr. 300, 508 P.2d 300 ( Preston ).)
[A] typical example of an adoptive admission is the accusatory statement
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