• tacosplease@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The 5th works differently in a civil trial in a really important way. In a civil case the jury is allowed to assume he’s guilty when he pleads the 5th.

    The prosecution could say something like “Wow. You are pleading the 5th to A LOT of these questions. That looks really bad. Undoubtedly you know this. Yet you seem to have determined that providing an answer would be even worse for you.”

    Or something like that. I’m not a lawyer.