Whether a district court must conduct a particularized inquiry into a witness's Fifth Amendment privilege before accepting a blanket assertion of self-incrimination and preventing the defendant from presenting the witness's testimony to the jury

The Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees a criminal defendant the right to seek compulsory process to call witnesses in his favor. When the trial court accepts a defense witness’s blanket assertion of the Fifth Amendment privilege against selfincrimination outside the presence of the jury, however, the accused’s ability to present a defense is thwarted—and the jury never knows the accused tried to bring the witness’s testimony before it. The question presented is: When a criminal defendant seeks testimony from a witness who asserts the Fifth Amendment privilege as to all questions, must the district court make a particularized inquiry into the scope of that privilege before accepting it and, even if accepted, allow the witness to be called to invoke the privilege before the jury or otherwise inform the jury about the invocation? ii No. _ In the Supreme Court of the United States WILLIAM LOGSDON , PETITIONER , V. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, RESPONDENT PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT Petitioner William Logsdon asks that a writ of certiorari issue to review the opinion and judgment entered by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on October 21, 2024.