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If she testifies in open court, wouldn't that just lead to more charges against her?

• mindslight 7y ago
  If that were true, she could easily take the 5th. (Also, her objection is that it is not an "open court")
  • smsm42 7y ago
    You can take the 5th in front of grand jury, it has nothing to do with openness: https://www.wisenberglaw.com/Articles/Taking-the-Fifth-Amendment-in-Front-of-the-Federal-Grand-Jury-in-Order-to-Protect-White-Collar-Defendants-and-Their-Papers.shtml https://www.wisenberglaw.com/Articles/Taking-the-Fifth-Amend... The way it usually works is if your testimony is needed, you are granted immunity for whatever new crimes that testimony may reveal and are compelled to testify. Then, you can not use 5th amendment as a reason for refusal.
    • mindslight 7y ago
      Yeah. Or in this case, she has already been convicted and served her sentence. Although if she were going to testify, it would make sense to insist on further immunity, given this grand jury's tendency to conjure charges out of thin air just as IBM conjures fake patents - "X, but with a computer".
      • smsm42 7y ago
        > Yeah. Or in this case, she has already been convicted and served her sentence. I don't think the problem here is that there's some problems with 5th amendment. I think the problem is Manning just doesn't want to recognize the validity of US legal system in general and grand jury in particular. That can only end in one way, and that's the way it ended in.