The Fifth Amendment shields people from being forced to testify against themselves. You can’t use that silence as proof of guilt. In *Griffin v. California* (1965), the Supreme Court made that clear. They ruled that a defendant’s quietness or invocation of the right cannot be used to infer guilt or justify prosecution. The law treats silence differently than compelled testimony. There is simply no legal ground to prosecute someone just for invoking the Fifth Amendment.
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