SPEAK, OR BE SENTENCED: THE HIGH PRICE OF PRE-ARREST SILENCE.

The article discusses the U.S. Supreme Court Case Salinas v. Texas wherein the Fifth-Amendment protection was narrowed by excluding the pre-arrest context with law enforcement from Fifth Amendment. Topics include the Supreme Court disagreeing with the reasoning of federal circuits, narrowing of the rules pertaining to a defendant's right to silence, protection of a criminal defendant's right to silence, and issue of a plurality opinion which needed invocation by the criminal defendant.