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UK
/ɪnkɹˌɪmɪnˈeɪʃən/
]
[ US /ˌɪnˌkɹɪməˈneɪʃən/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnˌkɹɪməˈneɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
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an accusation that you are responsible for some lapse or misdeed
his incrimination was based on my testimony
the police laid the blame on the driver
How To Use incrimination In A Sentence
- Expecting cooperation when such can lead to self incrimination on a whim is just as inexplicable. The Volokh Conspiracy » Juveniles on Probation, and Their Parents’ Guns (and Other Weapons)
- It is quite clear that this thread of non-incrimination is at variance with the recent emphasis on obtaining confession evidence.
- Lawyers for the two men sent letters to the committee Tuesday saying they would invoke their rights against self-incrimination in choosing not to answer the committee's questions. Solyndra Executives to Plead the Fifth
- In addition, this thesis argues that the administrative agency should grant immunity to remove the danger of self-incrimination and compel people to disclose information.
- His incrimination was based on my testimony.
- Only the freedom from self-incrimination is Constitutional. Balkinization
- To what did the privilege against self-incrimination extend? Times, Sunday Times
- Many of those detectives still serve in the police department -- and face no adverse consequences when they periodically invoke their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination rather than answer questions about their past interrogation practices. Locke Bowman: Chicago Police Miss the Message about the Cost of Wrongful Convictions
- As to Count II, the Defendant invokes his Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination as to each and every allegation contained in Court II.
- Lileikis has tried unsuccessfully to assert a Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination rather than answer allegations in the suit.