United States v. Charles Crawford

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that neither prosecution nor defense may call witness knowing that witness will assert his Fifth Amendment privilege against self incrimination
• assuming error and concluding that failure to move for a mistrial undermines contention on appeal that error deprived defendant of a fair trial
• “[I]n the absence of a motion for mistrial, we must weigh the prejudicial effect of the [error] with the weight of the evidence pointing to . . . guilt.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).