While Murray has said he would invoke his FifthAmendmentrights to avoid testifying as his criminal appeal is pending, Dr. Finkelstein is expected to take the stand.
As such, the petitioner argued that this violated his FifthAmendmentrights to due process because it convicts a person for mere association and not some overt criminal act.
He chose to exercise his FifthAmendmentrights instead of facing congressional and Securities and Exchange Commission questions in 2002--a strategy that will give him much-needed mobility when on the stand.
And it doesn't mean an indictment is inevitable, but now it means that people will be required to give evidence or face contempt of court charges or will have to evoke their FifthAmendmentrights.
But encouraging the public to draw adverse conclusions from her assertion of her rights under the FifthAmendment would have a similar effect of turning her into a scapegoat.