"Taking the Fifth" Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
April 25, 2012 | The Insider: White Collar Defense and Securities Enforcement
The rituals associated with asserting Fifth Amendment rights are, by now, familiar ones. We see them on television when crime show detectives issue Miranda warnings to the “perps” they are handcuffing and loading into squad cars. We see them when government officials or corporate executives are called before Congress to testify regarding illegal arms sales [...]