"amendment" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- A common reason for a witness to be unavailable is that the witness is claiming a Fifth Amendment privilege against self incrimination.
- Called before the Senate Internal Security subcommittee, she invoked her Fifth Amendment privilege against involuntary self-incrimination when asked if she was a member.
- All nine Justices agreed that the woman, Amanda Mitchell, retained the right to invoke her Fifth Amendment privilege.
- Compliance confronted Byers with "substantial hazards of self-incrimination" in violation of his Fifth Amendment privilege.
- The Government believed that petitioners were likely to assert their Fifth Amendment privilege.
- "It should be self-evident that a witness's mere claim of innocence does not preclude invoking the fundamental Fifth Amendment privilege," the appeal continued.
- They appealed, arguing that the instructions to the jury violated their 5th Amendment privilege to not incriminate themselves.
- However, it was leaked that he had invoked his Fifth Amendment privilege to avoid testifying before a grand jury some years prior.
- Ms. Lewinsky cannot be forced to testify in a criminal case against Mr. Clinton: she can claim her Fifth Amendment privilege.
- Instead those Iran-contra spark plugs went before a special Senate-House committee and invoked their Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination.
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