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If you're not very charismatic, or rather, very not charismatic, you can undermine your own defense.
by achenet 3y ago
If you're not very charismatic, or rather, very not charismatic, you can undermine your own defense.
- outside1234 3y agoAlso the prosecution then has the ability to rain questions on you. When you are super guilty, that typically doesn't go well.
- SAI_Peregrinus 3y agoYep. They will ask some questions they can prove the answers to, and those will usually be the ones that implicate you. If you lie, they'll call all your other testimony into question, as well as get you at least one perjury charge! If you don't lie, you admitted to the crime you committed, and could have saved a lot of hassle by pleading guilty to begin with. If you plead the 5th, it's officially the same as if you'd never testified to begin with, but juries may still be biased to see that as you attempting to hide something you're guilty about. Better to avoid testifying at all.