Fifth Amendment: A Comprehensive Approach

by Alfredo Garcia and Alfredo García

The Fifth Amendment is typically equated in both popular and legal discourse with the privilege against self-incrimination. This concept, Garcia reminds us, represents an incomplete view of the amendment. Often forgotten are the other two criminal clauses embodied in the text of the amendment: the right to a grand jury indictment for a serious crime and the freedom from double jeopardy for the same offense.

Garcia emphasizes the relationship...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313296855
• ISBN13: 9780313296857
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.8" x 9.0"