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Employment (Focus & Forum)

Feb. 21, 2009

Employment: When the 5th Won't Help You

The 5th Amendment doesn't protect public employees from having to answer their boss' questions regarding possible misconduct on the job, write J. Scott Tiedemann and Morin I. Jacob.

EMPLOYMENT COLUMN

SAN FRANCISCO DAILY JOURNAL l FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2009 l PAGE

By J. Scott Tiedemann and Morin I. Jacob

The Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination is familiar to most people, probably due to an abundance of television dramas. On TV screens across America, the following scene is repeated nightly: The confident defense attorney strides into the interrogation room just as her hapless client is about to confess to a ...

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