The court properly precluded defendant from testifying that he had told the arresting officers that the deceased police officer had shot him first. The prosecutor's cross-examination of defendant did not open the door to this hearsay statement. On cross-examination, defendant denied having made a certain remark to the arresting officers that the precluded statement
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