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The US supreme Court has decided that remaining silent isn't actually asserting your fifth amendment right to remain silent. You need to actually affirm it. Nobody's even pretending there's logic to this shit. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salinas_v._Texas
The 5th amendment only applies before arrest and during court. You still have the right to silence after arrest, that is a common law right.
Salinas volunteered to go to the police station (he wasn't arrested), so he had no common law right to silence.
Of course what you wrote is not what it actually says in the Bill of Rights.
That's close to what Scalia/Thomas argued but that's not what the majority opinion says. They explicitly say you always have the ability to plead the fifth and have it not be used as evidence. And it's true. You never have to self incriminate. But their argument is you have to make it explicit, which is frankly dumb.
The fact that in some instances the legal system does work according to the invocation of a magic phrase makes it so much harder to deal with the delusions of sovcits. The right to remain silent should be just that. You don’t have to say “I’m invoking my right to free speech” every time before opening your mouth for it to count.
That's the trick. An example is the am I being detained thing. A clock of reasonableness starts ticking as soon as you're detained until the detention is considered a potentially unlawful arrest, but that detention doesn't start until the officer tells you you can't leave. Also a cop has to have a valid reason to detain you or anything you say will be inadmissible in court. Until you ask that magic phrase, though, you're having a consensual encounter and everything you say(or not say) will always be admissible.
Important safety tip.
Thanks, Ray.
The Erosion of Miranda
And this was in 2014.
Imagine being Mahmoud Khalil right now and talking about the Fifth Amendment. You're lucky if you can invoke the Suspension Clause.
I don't think you want to be named Md. in America at the moment or in the last several years