• Neato@kbin.social
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      That’s mostly for police. Once you’re in court and ordered to testify, the person talking about germany is mostly correct. You can’t be forced to self-incriminate nor testify against a spouse. Otherwise yes. Generally 99% of courts won’t bother even asking the defendant to testify because self-incrimination is practically guaranteed. Usually only if the defense calls on them, which is often a bad idea.

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        1 year ago

        “Please state your name”

        “I can’t do that without incriminating myself”

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        1 year ago

        I just talked about Germany because I didn’t knew how it is in the US. Apparently it’s exactly the same. Intresting comment

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      Only if there’s a risk at incriminating yourself, and if it’s not immediately apparent how you’d run that risk (e.g. you’re a witness that doesn’t have a direct relation to the crime at hand) you’d have to motivate how it could be incriminating.