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Originally Posted by Hitch
Reiner was unique, and that wasn't the Court's entire ruling, nor the context; the Supremes never said that an innocent person can take the Fifth willy-nilly; they said, in Reiner:
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I still stand by my original statement. Invoking the 5th amendment does not and cannot imply guilt. The courts have said over and over again that a defendent cannot be forced to testify and and jury cannot use use that plea to assume guilt.