The following excerpt is from Melchor v. Johnson, Case No. 1:14-cv-01048 MJS (HC) (E.D. Cal. 2016):
The Fifth Amendment provides that "no person . . . shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself." "The privilege against self-incrimination can be asserted "in any proceeding, civil or criminal, administrative or judicial, investigatory or adjudicatory." Kastigar v. United States, 406 U.S. 441, 444 (1972).
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