Taliaferro v. State

The Supreme Court of the United States has twice expressly reserved the question of "[wjhether and to what extent a State can enforce” a notice-of-alibi rule "by excluding relevant, probative evidence” offered by the defendant, recognizing that it "is a question raising Sixth Amendment issues.” Williams v. Florida, 399 U.S. 78, 83 n. 14, 90 S.Ct. 1893, 26 L.Ed.2d 446 (1970). See Wardius v. Oregon, 412 U.S. 470, 472 n. 4, 93 S.Ct. 2208, 37 L.Ed.2d 82 (1973). Under circumstances like those in this case, where the sanction of exclusion for violating a notice-of-alibi rule operates to prevent a…