Former president Donald Trump said in a statement that he has had no option but to use the Fifth Amendment in the New York attorney general's investigation into his business practices.
that a person only has to answer for their crimes when"on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury."
There are exceptions for cases held in military courts or for those actively serving in the military. Additionally, a person cannot be called to stand as a witness against themselves in a criminal court case, cannot be prosecuted twice for the same offense and should not"be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law."According to Congress, the concept of a grand jury comes from England and Athens, Greece.
"Its adoption in our Constitution as the sole method for preferring charges in serious criminal cases shows the high place it held as an instrument of justice," James Madison wrote in a draft of the Bill of Rights. The origins of the concept of double jeopardy are harder to track down, while the self-incrimination clause stems from the Latin phrase"nemo tenetur seipsum accusare," meaning"no man is bound to accuse himself."Trump's former associates previously invoked their Fifth Amendments in investigations that spurred from their time as key players during his presidency.
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