Pleading the 5th
Anonymous
nobody at mix.winterorbit.com
Wed Apr 4 13:29:38 PDT 2001
In light of recent "situations" involving cpunks and the courts, I've been
thinking about the 5th Amendment.
I pose two questions:
If called to testify in a criminal case, and asked the question "Are you
known by any other names" (or a derivative of that question), could one
plead the fifth in order to prevent the disclosure of a pseudonym?
If asked the question "have you ever communicated with [third party]",
could one plead the fifth if that communication was made through a
pseudonym, and tying that pseudonym to oneself could potentially be
incriminating?
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