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  2. List of United States Supreme Court cases involving mental ...

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    An involuntarily committed, legally competent patient who refused medication had a right to professional medical review of the treating psychiatrist's decision. The Court left the decision-making process to medical professionals. 14th 1990 Washington v. Harper: Prisoners have only a very limited right to refuse psychotropic medications in prison.

  3. Self-incrimination - Wikipedia

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    In criminal law, self-incrimination is the act of making a statement that exposes oneself to an accusation of criminal liability or prosecution. [1] Self-incrimination can occur either directly or indirectly: directly, by means of interrogation where information of a self-incriminatory nature is disclosed; or indirectly, when information of a self-incriminatory nature is disclosed voluntarily ...

  4. Salinas v. Texas - Wikipedia

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    Salinas v. Texas, 570 US 178 (2013), is a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, which the court held 5-4 decision, declaring that the Fifth Amendment's self-incrimination clause does not extend to defendants who simply choose to remain silent during questioning, even though no arrest has been made nor the Miranda rights read to a defendant.

  5. Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution - Wikipedia

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    The Self-Incrimination clause provides various protections against self-incrimination, including the right of an individual not to serve as a witness in a criminal case in which he or she is a defendant. "Pleading the Fifth" is a colloquial term often used to invoke the Self-Incrimination Clause when witnesses decline to answer questions where ...

  6. Miranda warning - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, the Miranda warning is a type of notification customarily given by police to criminal suspects in police custody (or in a custodial interrogation) advising them of their right to silence and, in effect, protection from self-incrimination; that is, their right to refuse to answer questions or provide information to law enforcement or other officials.

  7. Carter v. Kentucky - Wikipedia

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    The Supreme Court of the State of Kentucky argued two things: 1) There is no case law within the jurisdiction supporting the idea that the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment procedural due process rights included a right to have the Jury be informed of the privilege against self-incrimination; and 2) The Judge would have had to comment upon the ...

  8. United States v. Hubbell - Wikipedia

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    Under the Act of Production Doctrine, the act of an individual in producing documents or materials (e.g., in response to a subpoena) may have a "testimonial aspect" for purposes of the individual's right to assert the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination to the extent that the individual's act of production provides information ...

  9. Right to silence - Wikipedia

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    It is well established that the Right against self incrimination has been granted to the accused by virtue of the pronouncement in the case of Nandini Sathpathy vs P. L. Dani, no one can forcibly extract statements from the accused, who has the right against self incrimination, not only in the court of law but also during interrogation. [33]