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Source: What Does it Mean to Plead the Fifth? | www.wisegeek.com
Description: Pleading the fifth is the label commonly used in the US legal sphere to describe the act of invoking the right against self-incrimination. The fifth in this case, refers to the Fifth Amendment of the US Constitution which grants various rights to people i
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It refers to the Fifth Amendment, and means "to decline to give self-incriminating information." Keep ChaChaing!
"Pleading the Fifth" is the refusal to testify on the grounds that the testimony might tend to incriminate the witness in a crime.
Pleading the 5th is the act of refusing to testify under oath in a court of law or any other tribunal. Thanks for using ChaCha!
Plead the 5th is a refusal to answer a question because the response could hold self incriminating evidence.
