PEOPLE v. FONSECA

Docket No. B086265.

36 Cal.App.4th 631 (1995)

42 Cal. Rptr.2d 525

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. JOSE FONSECA, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division One.

July 7, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Lisa M. Bassis, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

Daniel E. Lungren, Attorney General, George Williamson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Carol Wendelin Pollack, Assistant Attorney General, Jaime L. Fuster and Raymund F. Robles, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

ORTEGA, J.

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.

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