Published on Northloop Neighborhoods (http://northloop.14gram.com)
The Right Not To Testify Against Yourself (aka the 5th Amendment...
By admin
Created 12/11/2007 - 9:56pm

…supposedly can’t be held against you, right [1]? It wouldn’t really be a ‘right’ if jurors were allowed to hold it against you. 

Houston criminal defense lawyer Mark Bennett points out though that the instruction read to the jury [2] in the charge in Texas is:

You are instructed that our law provides that the failure of the defendant to testify shall not be taken as a circumstance against him, and during your deliberations you must not...


Source URL (retrieved on 11/22/2008 - 8:10am): http://northloop.14gram.com/right-not-testify-against-yourself-aka-5th-amendment-0

Links:
[1] http://blog.austindefense.com/2007/01/articles/general/fifth-amendment-us-constitution/
[2] http://www.bennettandbennett.com/blog/2007/12/failure-to-testify.html