SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The California Supreme Court has ruled that a suspect’s silence may be used against him.

Wading into a legally tangled vehicular manslaughter case Thursday, a sharply divided high court effectively reinstated the felony conviction of a man accused in a 2007 San Francisco Bay Area crash that left an 8-year-old girl and her sister and mother injured.

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