City of Houston v. Brenda Garcia Cruz

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• holding that a witness should not be put on the stand for the purpose of having him exercise his privilege before the jury, partly on the ground that the “jury may think it high courtroom drama[.]”
• upholding trial court’s refusal to compel attendance of a witness who indicated he would invoke his privilege against self-incrimination
• “[A] witness should not be put on the stand for the purpose of having him exercise his privilege before the jury. This would only invite the jury to make an improper inference.”
• “[Tlhe probative value of the event is almost entirely undercut by the absence of any requirement that dle witness justify his fear of incrimination and by the fact that it is a form of evidence not subject to cross-examination.”
• \[T]he probative value of the event is almost entirely undercut by the absence of any requirement that the witness justify his fear of incrimination and by the fact that it is a form of evidence not subject to cross-examination.\

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