Quotes About 5th Amendment

#1. There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or a person who calls the police to offer a confession because volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the 5th Amendment.

Earl Warren

#2. The 5th Amendment guarantees that defendants can't face 'double jeopardy,' which means the government can't prosecute a person a second time for the same crime if the jury returns a verdict. Only if the jury doesn't reach a decision can prosecutors elect to retry the case.

Robert Shapiro

#3. The 5th Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized.

William O. Douglas

#4. The truth is, while the FBI is hiding behind the 5th Amendment, the Unabomer is qualifying for Social Security as a terrorist. Beam me up, Mr. Speaker.

James Traficant

#5. I never dreamed I would so enjoy having a father. It is like having another interesting mind, somewhat similar to your own but also strangely different, to rummage through.

Alice Walker

#6. Life is surreal. When you step back and really take a look at it, the irony is absolute.

Julieanne O'Connor

#7. Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O Ponticus?

Juvenal

#8. I have been blessed with roles that allow me to express something very personal at a specific time in my life. I seek them out; acting is my therapy.

Victoria Clark

#9. Order is one of the needs of life which, when it is satisfied, produces a real happiness

Maria Montessori

#10. We sin so much, we deceive so much, and all for what? I'm over fifty, my friend ... I'll ... Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible. He

Leo Tolstoy

#11. Can a man cling to the positive without any negative in contrast to which it is seen to be positive? If he claims to do so he is a rouge or a madman.

Zhuangzi

#12. I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!

Danica McKellar

#13. I just try to tell a story rather than present an open diary to the world.

Adam Schlesinger

#14. I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn

Herbie Hancock