I just didn't know why you thought RH might be wrong...and I'm not sure if I understood your post
I neither thought RH was wrong, nor said anything to that effect.
In fact, I was sticking up for him.
Somebody had a belief that RH maintained the 5th was deep -sixed at a deposition. Not in those words but you get the idea...
I believe it was a faulty recollection based in good faith....totally innocent & well-meaning.
But I found it hard to accept that RH said that. So, I said so. That's all.
And then I gave my own opinion.
My post is an opinion that the 5th amendment is available at a deposition.
My reasoning was that the US Constitution is not checked at the door of a room where a deposition is conducted and picked up on the way out.
The mere fact that we are dealing with a civil trial is no way negates
the Constitutional protections available via the amendments.
Say you are at a deposition.
You will not be subjected to an unreasonable or illegal search and seizure because the Constitutional Amendments protect you from that.
You also retain 5th Amendment protections......and thus you have the right against self-incrimination.
The 5th amendment won't get you out of the whole deposition though. You invoke it on a question by question basis.
opinion:wolf:
Oh God, I hope I haven't made it worse....
