The defendant was charged with forging the signature of her employer on several checks made payable to her best friend, a co-worker. After discovering that the checks had been forged, the employer called the defendant into his office and told her that he regretted trusting her with the task of paying his bills and could not believe that his two most trusted employees devised a scheme to defraud him. The defendant did not respond to the statement and walked out of the room. At trial, the prosecution wants to offer the defendant's silence as evidence of her guilt. How should the court rule? Group of answer choices Admissible under an exception to the hearsay rule for implied statements against interest. Admissible nonhearsay. Inadmissible as violating the defendant's right against self-incrimination. Inadmissible, because failure to reply to an accusation in a criminal case cannot be used as an implied admission of a criminal act