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Is there a right to remain silent?
coercive interrogation and the Fifth Amendment after 9/11
By Dershowitz, Alan M.
- ISBN
- 978-0-19530-779-5
- Publisher
- Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 2008.
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Reviewed on March 1, 2008
Dershowitz (Harvard Law Sch.; America on Trial) here examines the status of our Fifth Amendment rights protecting us from self-incrimination in the wake of 9/11 and the war on terror. Using the 2003 Supreme Court decision Chavez v. Martinez as a springboard, he looks at how the Court has recently interpreted the amendment. Chavez v. Martinez originated as a civil case in which Martinez, a suspect, sued Benjamin Chavez, a police officer, for interrogation techniques ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
