People v. Fonseca

OPINION

Rejecting defendant's claims that a defense witness should have been compelled to testify, we affirm his cocaine trafficking conviction. We hold that a convicted defendant retains his Fifth Amendment privilege as to subsequent proceedings against other defendants at least until the time he no longer retains the right to file a timely notice of appeal.

BACKGROUND

An undercover officer approached Marcelo Ramirez and asked to buy cocaine. Ramirez told the officer to wait and walked several feet over to defendant, who gave Ramirez something from his pocket. Neither the officer nor his…