can’t use Walder to keep out 3rd party alibi testimony. This is too much deterrence for D
case at trial. Majority didn’t want exclusionary rule impeachment evidence to be used as a sword to keep D from putting on a defense. Exclusionary rule is supposed to be a shield.
o Impeachment exception doesn’t apply when D doesn’t testify but Prosecutors seeks to impeach testimony of D’s only with a third party
o it is too much removed from D testifying and it effectively keeps D from putting on any case in defense
where you have made an illegal confession, the taint is usually stronger
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“cat out of the bag doctrine” o where one makes an illegal statement, it is very difficult to break the taint from that
illegal statement o generally there needs to be a break in the stream of events to remove the taint from the
new statement
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