Defendant's right to confront witnesses was not violated by the prosecutor's opening statement or by the admission into evidence of a portion of the codefendant's plea allocution. In his initial statement to the jury that the evidence would show that defendant acted in concert to rob complainant, the prosecutor did not refer to any particular testimony of a witness who ultimately invoked the Fifth Amendment privilege. To the extent that the prosecutor may have implied that...
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