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14‑5034. Admission or confession used for impeachment.1

You may consider statements the defendant made to the authorities during the investigation of the case for the purpose of determining whether the defendant told the truth when the defendant testified in this case and for that purpose only.

 

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1.         Upon request, this instruction must be given when the state uses an otherwise inadmissible statement for impeachment.

[As amended by Supreme Court Order No. 18-8300-012, effective for all cases pending or filed on or after December 31, 2018.]

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