Everyone has the right to invoke constitutional protections against self-incrimination for criminal cases. But here's why Donald Trump shouldn’t expect those protections when he faces a civil jury this fall. (via Deadline: Legal Blog)
But what we have is more than just video evidence of the former president effectively conceding in a legal proceeding that he might have violated the law. As Harry Litman pointed out on the show Tuesday, we saw evidence that the jury in Trump’s civil trial, set for October, can see too.
But why can invoking the Fifth Amendment be used against someone in a civil case but not in a criminal case?, which states that a person can’t be “compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself.”the Supreme Court observed that in criminal cases, “the stakes are higher and the State’s sole interest is to convict.
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