Your Right to Remain Silent in DUI Cases

Your silence could protect you in a DUI case. If you are worried about incriminating yourself when you speak to the police, “plead the Fifth” before or after an arrest. The Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States affords Americans this right, but far too few people know how to use it. The “right to remain silent” part of the Fifth Amendment reads: “No person … shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself.” Invoking the right is to refuse to answer a question because its implications and the circumstances under which it is...

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