incriminate oneself

As suspects in a criminal case, Vinyard and Amaya were not required to give statements to the FBI, which investigated the case, as part of their Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate oneself.

But Judge Kathryn Quaintance rejected that Friday, calling a person’s right not to incriminate oneself a fundamental constitutional right.

Very often, indeed, by answering a direct question about books, one does incriminate oneself.