Casey Anthony Trial

Clodfobble · 07-05-2011, 02:43 PM

Can someone explain to me the benefit of the 5th amendment? Obviously I understand what it does, but why is it a good thing? Why shouldn't we be able to make people take the stand and give answers to questions they don't want to answer?

Happy Monkey · 07-05-2011, 03:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Clodfobble

Can someone explain to me the benefit of the 5th amendment? Obviously I understand what it does, but why is it a good thing? Why shouldn't we be able to make people take the stand and give answers to questions they don't want to answer?

Here's Wikipedia. It's Oliver Cromwell's fault.

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