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Cоnvicted after a jury trial of sale of cocaine in violation of Health and Safety Code section 11352, appellant contends that the trial сourt improperly permitted a defense witness to refuse to answer various questions asked of him by claiming the Fifth Amendment privilege. He argues that: (1) the witness was immunized from prosecution by Health and Safety Code section 11367; and (2) the prosecution was required to grant immunity to the witness pursuant to Penal Code section 1324 to preserve appellant’s right to a fair trial. Concluding that the record does not establish that Health and Safety Code section 11367 so cоmpletely immunized the witness from all possibility of prosecution as to foreclose the possibility that his answers to the questions asked might supply a link in the chаin of evidence incriminating the witness and that appellant has not preserved any right he might have to compel that grant of immunity to the witness by requesting the grаnt at trial, we affirm the judgment.
In November of 1973, Robert (Clutch) Franklin was arrested in possession of IQ pounds of marijuana. Los Angeles Sheriff’s Deputy Christopher Guzzetta told Franklin that if he would work with the police there was a possibility that Guzzetta could help him.
On November 23, 1973, Franklin was thoroughly searched by Guzzetta at the Malibu sheriff’s station and found to possess no contraband. He accompanied Deputy Sheriff Edward Araiza, working undercover, to an address on Coast Highway wherе Franklin indicated cocaine could be purchased.
The prosecution’s evidence established that appellant sold one ounce of cocaine to Araiza with payment of $200 passing from Araiza to appellant through Franklin. Appellant’s defense was that Franklin and not he supрlied the cocaine without appellant’s knowledge. To corroborate his own testimony, appellant called Franklin as a witness. After having answered a question to the effect that he knew appellant, Franklin indicated that he wished to exercise his privilege against self-incrimination. The trial judge stated that the witness should claim the privilege as each question was asked of him by appellant’s counsel and that a ruling would then be made. The trial court sustained Franklin’s claim of privilege to questions of whether he went to appellant’s home with a police officer, whether he had been promised that if he “set someone up” he would get a $500 bail on a case pending *101 against him, whether bail was in fact set at $500, whether he was skin-searchеd on November 23, whether appellant sold him cocaine on that date, whether on November 23 Franklin had a conversation with appellant оutside of the presence of Araiza and then handed Araiza cocaine, whether it was a fact that he never bought cocaine from appellant, whether he went to appellant’s house as a police informant to attempt to purchase cocaine, whether he had cocaine on his person when he went to appellant’s house, whether he asked appellant to sell him cocaine, whether at appellant’s house the witness took cocaine from his person and handed it to Araiza, and whether at the time he went to the house Franklin owed appellant $200.
The jury returned a verdict finding appellant guilty of selling cocaine. This appeal from the resulting judgment followed.
Appellant contеnds that the trial court erred in sustaining Franklin’s claim of privilege against self-incrimination rather than requiring Franklin to answer. His contention is two-pronged. He argues that Health and Safety Code section 11367 immunizes Franklin from prosecution for anything involved in the transaction of November 23, 1973, and that in any event due procеss of law and the right to a fair trial require that the prosecution have granted Franklin immunity under Penal Code section 1324 so as to make his testimony available to appellant’s defense.
While Health and Safety Code section 11367 provides: “All duly authorized peace officers, while investigating violations of this division in performance of their official duties, and any person working under their immediate direction, supervision or instruction, are immune from prosecution under this division,” and while Franklin was concededly working as a police agent under the immediate direction of Deputy Araiza when he went to appellant’s house on November 23, that combination of circumstances does not make the trial court’s ruling sustaining the claims of Fifth Amendment privilege prejudiсially erroneous.
A witness “need not actually prove the existence of an incriminatory hazard [in order properly to invoke his Fifth Amendment privilege] as that would surrender the very protection which the privilege against self-incrimination was designed to guarantee. Instead, the privilege forbids comрelled disclosures which could serve as a ‘link in a chain’ of evidence tending to establish guilt of a criminal offense; in ruling upon a
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claim of privilege, thе trial court must find that it clearly appears from a consideration of all the circumstances in the case that an answer to the challenged question cannot possibly have a tendency to incriminate the witness.”
(Prudhomme
v.
Superior Court, 2
Cal.3d 320, 326 [
The second prong of appellant’s argument is not available to him on this appeal. A defendant who desires that the prosecution grant immunity to a witness called on his behalf to enable the witness to testify must assert his сlaim in the trial court. If he does not do so, he cannot on appeal assert error in the failure to grant immunity.
(People
v.
Bernal,
The judgment is affirmed.
Wood, P. J., and Lillie, X, concurred.
Notes
In general, the due process right of fair trial does not require that the prosecution grant immunity to a defense witness in order to compel his testimony despite a claim of Fifth Amendment privilege.
(People
v.
Hernandez,