Opinion ID: 550849
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: Geane Doby's testimony

Text: 17 Petitioner asserts that the court should have coerced his co-defendant, Geane Doby, to testify, or alternatively, the court should have halted the trial proceedings and called in another witness to testify on petitioner's behalf. We find no merit in these claims. We agree with the district court that the court exhausted all possible legal routes in attempting to compel the testimony of Geane Doby. Doby refused to testify even after the court warned him that he was not entitled to any fifth amendment protection regarding the arson scheme and he could be fined and incarcerated for persisting in his refusal to testify. In this situation there was nothing more the court could do to compel Doby to testify. 18 We reject petitioner's claim that the trial should have been stopped and a new witness brought in to testify on his behalf. Petitioner never disclosed who that witness would be, what he would have testified to, and the reason for him or her not testifying in the first place.