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091440P.pdf 02/10/2010 United States v. Julian Allmon
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 09-1440
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Little Rock
[PUBLISHED] [Melloy, Author, with Wollman and Riley, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Criminal law and sentencing. Defendant failed to show
that his testimony could subject him to criminal prosecution as he had
already provided the testimony in another federal prosecution and he
failed to establish any change in circumstances that would justify a
refusal to testify in the subsequent prosecution; Fifth Amendment does
not confer a right to refuse to testify when the witness's fear of perjury
arises out of his current refusal to testify truthfully and thus risk
committing perjury at the present proceeding; finding of criminal
contempt is affirmed; application of Guidelines Sec. 2J1.2 as the
analogous guideline under Sec. 2X5.1 was appropriate.