Fifth Amendment gives citizens of the United States the right to remain silent, if they believe that speaking would incriminate them or in some way connect them to a crime that was committed. Not …

I’ve been thinking about a particular situation that might arise as a result of police negligence and, as you might expect, it’s at once a sad and funny thing to think about.

As most of us know, since 1966 …

The fifth Amendment to the Constitution guarantees no citizen “shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself.” Neither prosecutor nor jury nor judge can compel a defendant to take the witness stand in his …