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Fifth Amendment
[fifth uh-mend-muhnt, fith]
noun
an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, providing chiefly that people cannot be required to testify against themselves in a criminal case and that no person be subjected to a second trial for an offense for which they have been duly tried previously.
Fifth Amendment
noun
an amendment to the US Constitution stating that no person may be compelled to testify against himself and that no person may be tried for a second time on a charge for which he has already been acquitted
to refuse to answer a question on the grounds that it might incriminate oneself
Fifth Amendment
One of the ten amendments to the United States Constitution that make up the Bill of Rights. The Fifth Amendment imposes restrictions on the government's prosecution of persons accused of crimes. It prohibits self-incrimination and double jeopardy and mandates due process of law.
Example Sentences
Anwar said she did not appear in court “due to the nature and content of the petition,” as well as her decision to take the Fifth Amendment, she wrote in an email to The Times.
Trump told NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday that he didn't know whether noncitizens in the U.S. are entitled to due process, as the Fifth Amendment states.
Other Democrats laid into their Republican colleagues' tacit support of circumventing the Fifth Amendment.
It says agents directed people to sign their names on an electronic screen without informing them of their Fifth Amendment right to an immigration hearing.
Another woman who was considered his girlfriend invoked her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination when asked if she was given money for sex or drugs, or to pay others.
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