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U.S. v. GRIFFIN

Nos. 94-30517, 94-30555.

66 F.3d 68 (1995)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Claude Antanne GRIFFIN, Jr., Defendant-Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Maxon H. MORGAN, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

September 21, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dwight Doskey, (court appointed), New Orleans, LA, for Claude Antanne Griffin, Jr.

Stephen A. Higginson, Peter G. Strasser, Mary Jude Darrow, Asst. U.S. Attys., Robert J. Boitmann, and Eddie J. Jordan, Jr., U.S. Attys., New Orleans, LA, for the U.S.

Robert F. Barnard and Francis King, Asst. Federal Public Defenders, New Orleans, LA, for Maxon H. Morgan.

Before JERRY E. SMITH, BARKSDALE, and BENAVIDES, Circuit Judges.

JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:

Claude Griffin, Jr., and Maxon Morgan appeal their convictions of cocaine trafficking. They contend that their Sixth Amendment right to compulsory process was denied when the district court refused to allow them to call a witness before the jury for the sole purpose of having him invoke an invalid privilege against self-incrimination. Because the Sixth Amendment recognizes no such right, we affirm.

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