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The Fifth Amendment covers a lot of ground, guaranteeing you a lot of different rights. One of these is your right to be free from compelled self-incrimination. However, this right is a complex one, with lots of nuances and exceptions to it. One of the strangest complexities in your self-incrimination

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The Fifth Amendment guarantees a lot of rights to people who are being investigated for a crime. While law enforcement and other anti-crime advocates see these rights as frivolous and silly, in reality, they are some of the only things keeping the government from watching everything we do and becoming

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You have a right to not be forced to say something that could incriminate yourself for a crime. This is your right against self-incrimination, and is one of the biggest, but also one of the most confusing, parts of the Fifth Amendment. One of the confusing aspects of your right

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If you’re being investigated for a crime in the state of Maine, the Constitution of the United States gives you some additional rights. One of these is in the Fifth Amendment, and protects you from being forced to incriminate yourself. Pleading the Fifth This is the right against self-incrimination, and

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In today’s professional world, it is often a struggle just to tread water, let alone get ahead. However, just because it can be difficult to move your career forward does not make it permissible to put the lives and well-being of others at risk. Nowhere is this more important than

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