LEMMON, Justice.
The principal issue in this case is whether the prosecutor's use of the fact of defendant's post-arrest silence for impeachment purposes warrants reversal of defendant's conviction of forcible rape, although defense counsel failed to make contemporaneous objections to the prosecutor's questions which brought out this fact. We conclude that the circumstances of this case do not warrant an exception to the contemporaneous objection rule of La.C. Cr...
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