re: Can a 10 year old rape victim get an abortion? Ohio says NO

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when a witness invokes the protections of the fifth amendment and declines to provide testimony, the standard jury instruction from the judge is that such invocation has no evidentiary value whatsoever, either positive or negative.

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FFS.

The prohibition against self incrimination applies to criminal prosecutions, skank. You (should) know that.

Pleading the Fifth in the civil realm? That’s a whole different ballgame, hoss. And you damn well know it. That gets an adverse inference instruction: if a witness won’t answer a question, then the answer is probably bad for them, and a jury is instructed as such.