California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Navarez, 169 Cal.App.3d 936, 215 Cal.Rptr. 519 (Cal. App. 1985):
"Today, then, there can be no doubt that the Fifth Amendment privilege is available outside of criminal court proceedings and serves to protect persons in all settings in which their freedom of action is curtailed in any significant way from being compelled to incriminate themselves. We have concluded that without proper safeguards the process of in-custody interrogation of persons suspected or accused of crime contains inherently compelling pressures which work to undermine the individual's will to resist and to compel him to speak where he would not otherwise do so freely. In order to combat these pressures and to permit a full opportunity to exercise the privilege against self-incrimination, the accused must be adequately and effectively apprised of his rights and the exercise of those rights must be fully honored." (Miranda v. Arizona, supra, 384 U.S. 436, 467, 86 S.Ct. 1602, 1624, 16 L.Ed.2d 694.)
Similarly, California courts have recognized the privilege against self-incrimination goes
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