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

Mr MacDowell denies all the charges and his lawyers have lodged a special defence of incrimination and alibi.

From BBC • Sep. 13, 2022

If not, she will invoke her Fifth Amendment right against self incrimination.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 22, 2021

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

It was heartrending work; and all the more so in that, though his incrimination seemed as far off as ever, there was still the same positiveness as to the culprit's identity.

From Bob, Son of Battle by Ollivant, Alfred