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What could happen if you would just walk into a police station and say: I want to turn myself in and I take the 5th. (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Of course without committing a crime before and without saying anything else.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Of course we do.

But it derives from common law via the New Zealand Bill of Rights and has nothing whatsoever to do with the US Constitution's amendments.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Thank you for helping to prove my point. When the OP was saying take the fifth he was talking in a genetic way. In other words walking into the police station and taking that countries variation of the fifth. He just didn't bother typing it fully out like that because it was obvious what his point was. It's obvious that new Zealand doesn't have the literal fifth amendment but they have the equivalent of it. Again thank you for helping to prove my point.

When I asked "doesn't new Zealand have that concept" I new they did. I was trying to get you to understand what the op was trying to say.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

@andrewta ooookay... next time maybe just make your point yourself, it would save me the trouble of replying unnecessarily.

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