incrimination

Example Sentences

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After having invoked his Fifth Amendment privilege against incrimination some 440 times in the first round of depositions, last month his attorneys surprisingly decided to have him answer questions under oath for some seven hours.

From Slate • May 11, 2023

His lawyers have lodged special defences of incrimination and alibi.

From BBC • Sep. 20, 2022

Walsh declined to answer questions from the Inspector General’s office and instead invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self incrimination, the report said.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 29, 2022

Morality, physics, theology, self-deception and grace pass between them, in halting verbosity and these friezes of guilt and incrimination.

From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2019

But I had given him nothing tangible in the way of incrimination.

From Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales by Cripps, Arthur Shearly