United States v. James Melvin Wilcox

JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge:

This is a Fifth Amendment case of unusual dimensions. Typically either the prosecution is trying to compel testimony from a witness or the defendant is asserting that the witness should invoke the privilege against self-incrimination. 1 Here, however, for the first time we have been able to discover, the defendant Wilcox sought to force Government wit ness Maruzewski to testify in person, even though the latter sought and judicially received the protection of the Fifth Amendment. We think Maruzew-ski’s successful invocation of the privilege and the consequent use of…