the jury will be told that and they cannot use the fact that he chooses not to testify in any way against him. he has the right to testify regardless of what his lawyers strongly advise him. i am confident that they are going to throw their bodies in front of the witness stand to try to get him not to take the stand. if you are the prosecutors you are licking your chops thinking if you want to take the stand great. the amount of cross-examination material, as you know from covering him, thousands and thousands of prior inconsistent statements. that is a polite way of saying a life. taking a stand would really be