Self Incrimination - Law Dictionary Search Results
Self-incrimination
Self-incrimination, confines to a person accused of an offence and does … include the cases of witnesses. What is protected is compulsory self-incrimination which may result in punishment for crime, People's Insurance Company
self-incrimination
self-incrimination : incrimination of and by oneself esp. through testimony see … and by oneself esp. through testimony see also privilege against self-incrimination at privilege
self-incriminating
self-incriminating : tending to incriminate oneself [a statement] … self-incriminating : tending to incriminate oneself [a statement]
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privilege against self-incrimination
privilege against self-incrimination see privilege
Confession
is not of itself a confession. A statement that contains self- exculpatory matter cannot amount to a confession, if the exculpatory … the facts which constitute the offence. An admission of an incriminating fact, howsoever grave, is not by itself a confession. A
incriminate
incriminated him was a box of trigger devices] see also self-incrimination in·crim·i·na·tion [in-kri-mə-nā-shən] n in·crim·i·na·to·ry [in-kri-mə-nə-tōr-ē] adj
privilege
jour·nal·ist's privilege : reporter's privilege in this entry privilege against self-incrimination : a privilege under the Fifth Amendment to the U.S.
declaration
or may subject that person to liability compare admission, confession, self-incrimination NOTE: A declaration against interest is an exception to the
confession
of a crime) compare admission declaration against interest at declaration, self-incrimination NOTE: Courts differ on how a confession establishes the accused's
exculpatory no doctrine
This doctrine is based on the Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination, and is often used as a defense to a charge
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