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STATE of Missouri, Respondent, v. Clarence A. BELL, Jr., Appellant.
    No. WD 63659.
    Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District.
    March 29, 2005.
    Melinda Kay Pendergraph, Columbia, MO, for Appellant.
    Deborah Daniels, Jefferson City, MO, for Respondent.
    Before SPINDEN, P.J., HOWARD and NEWTON, JJ.
   ORDER

PER CURIAM.

The State charged Appellant Clarence Bell as a prior drug offender with six counts of the class B felony of delivery of a controlled substance in violation of section 195.211 RSMo 2000. The six counts stemmed from crack cocaine sales Bell allegedly made to a confidential informant on six different dates in December 2001, and January 2002. After a trial, the jury acquitted Bell on five of the charges but convicted him of one count of delivery of a controlled substance on January 11, 2002.

On appeal from the judgment entered upon his conviction, Bell claims the trial court abused its discretion by: (I) not striking a juror for cause; (II) allowing a witness for the State to invoke his Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination; and (III) overruling Bell’s request for continuance to investigate the State’s witness and allowing the witness to testify. We affirm the judgment pursuant to Rule 30.25(b).