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taking the Fifth |
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taking the Fifth n. the refusal to testify on the ground that the testimony might tend to incriminate the witness in a crime, based on the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution which provides that "No person....shall be compelled to be a witness against himself," applied to state courts by the 14th Amendment. The term became famous during televised Senate committee hearings on organized crime in 1951, when a series of crime bosses "took the Fifth." (See: self-incrimination) |
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``I'll plead the fifth on that,'' he said of his score. WHERE YOU'VE SEEN HIM He Was the straight-o big bro in Thirteen and has reportedly dated his on-screen sister, co-star Evan Rachel Wood, but he won't talk about that: "I plead the fifth. While most executives plead the Fifth Amendment early on in the case, they may be inclined to do so closer to trial if they want to buy time to find out more about an investigation, said Jan Handzlik, a partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP who is not involved in the case. |
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