failure to testify
failure to testify 〈美〉拒绝提供证词 根据联邦宪法第五条修正案提供的保障，刑事被告人有权拒绝提供证词，且法庭或控诉方不得据此作出对被告人不利的推断。
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failure to testify
failure to testify
A party’s — esp. a criminal defendant’s — decision not to testify. • Under the Fifth Amendment, the prosecutor and the judge cannot comment to the jury on a criminal defendant’s failure to testify. But comments on the failure are usu. permissible in a civil case. [Cases: Criminal Law 317; Evidence 76; Witnesses 88. C.J.S.
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