Reply #20: anybody (ANYBODY) [View All]

[paulsby]

has the right to withold testimony if it could incriminate them.

ANYBODY.

officers do NOT have right to withold statements during internal investigations, and they can and are fired for doing so. their right to remain silent applies to the criminal prong, JUST LIKE ANYBODY ELSE.

read my other post, where i explain the bifurcated process.

once the criminal trial is adjudicated, that's when the investigators will compel testimony.

if they compel it prior to that, it completely poisons the criminal trial.