Is there any distinction between civil and criminal litigation concerning the impermissibility of drawing adverse inferences from a witness's invocation of the privilege against self-incrimination?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Ruelas v. Harper, E051961 (Cal. App. 2015):
California law makes no distinction between civil and criminal litigation concerning the impermissibility of drawing adverse inferences from a witness's invocation of the privilege against self-incrimination. (People v. Holloway (2004) 33 Cal.4th 96, 131-132.) Evidence Code section 913 provides: "(a) If in the instant
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