Example sentences for: self-incrimination

How can you use “self-incrimination” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Unfortunately, it would be an excellent investigative tool precisely because it would eviscerate the constitutional right to avoid self-incrimination.

  • Miller claimed the First Amendment (right to freedom of speech and association) rather than taking the Fifth (right against self-incrimination).

  • If the latter, then Congress could overrule the method, which would mean that a little-noticed alternative interpretation of how to protect suspects against self-incrimination buried in a bill passed in 1968 is in fact the law of the land.

  • (2) Tripp will also argue that because her tapes were subpoenaed by Starr, their use in the Maryland case violates her Fifth Amendment protection from self-incrimination.

  • The NYT ably explains what's at issue in the new Supreme Court Miranda case: whether with the original ruling, the Warren Court was establishing a rule of constitutional law or merely expressing its own preference for a method of enforcing the constitutional right against compelled self-incrimination.


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