United States v. Albert Juan Nunez

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• not every invocation of privilege against self-incrimination by a witness results in denial of defendant’s Sixth Amendment rights
• if the witness is “the chief Government witness, providing the crucial link in the prosecution’s case, the importance of full cross-examination is necessarily increased”
• “The usual remedy when a government witness invokes the Fifth Amendment on cross-examination on matters to which the witness testifies on direct examination is to strike the witness’ direct testimony.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).