Fifth Amendment
Former President Donald Trump said he invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination Wednesday during a deposition before lawyers from New York Attorney General Letitia James office. The term 5th Amendment refers to the more well-known aspect of the Fifth Amendment to the US. Pin Page Fifth Amendment amendment 1791 to the Constitution of the United States part of the Bill of Rights that articulates procedural safeguards designed to protect the rights of the criminally accused and to secure life liberty and property. . No person shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous crime unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury except in cases arising in the land or naval forces or in the Militia when in actual service in time of War or public danger. 454 -- The Fifth Amendment extends to statements made to an examiner at a court ordered psychiatric evaluation to determine competency to stand trial and to the...