When will a jury consider the credibility of a defendant's extrajudicial statements against trial testimony and the physical evidence and testimony of witnesses?

There were other crucial points of conflict between defendant's extrajudicial statements and trial testimony on the one hand, and the physical evidence and testimony of witnesses on the other. Without belaboring the point, our review of the record indicates that these and other such conflicts were hardly "tangential, collateral and of little importance." "[I]f the defendant tenders an explanation which, while superficially accounting for his activities, nevertheless seems bizarre or implausible, the inquiry whether he reasonably should have known about circumstances claimed to be outside his knowledge is a credibility question for resolution by the jury [citations]." (People v. Mask (1986) 188 Cal.App.3d 450, 455, 233 Cal.Rptr. 181.)

8. Doyle--Massiah Error