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The fifth amendment helps protect our legal rights. Whether you are the defendant at a  trial or just a citizen attempting to live under our government, the fifth amendment makes sure that you get a fair treatment in America. Many innocent people would be found guilty of crimes if they didn’t retain the rights in this amendment. So, the fifth amendment protects our legal rights as American people.

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The 5th amendment was a modification to the Constitution that was ratified in 1791. It protects our right to a just trial and upholds fair treatment under the laws. The 5th amendment helps sustain and protect our right to a grand jury, which is a group of citizens chosen to judge a defendant at a trial when they are accused of a crime, and our right of due process, which keeps the government from behaving unfairly to anyone or divesting them of their “life, liberty, or property.” It also forbids citizens from being tried more than once for the same crime, a right known as double jeopardy, and it states that no one can be forced to answer any questions or testify in a trial, as they might accidentally incriminate themselves in a process called self-incrimination.

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At the beginning of 2019, a judge in California ruled that a man whom the authorities suspected was harboring child pornography in his computer had to give the police his password. However, the Supreme Court, after careful deliberation, resolved that the suspect did NOT have to share his password with anyone. Why? Because, apparently, revealing a password may show the judges and jury too much of the person’s personality- passwords are usually related in some way to their inventors’ likes, dislikes, etc., so the judges and jury may develop a bias based on the defender’s password. The 5th amendment was a key deciding factor in this case, as it protects us against self-incrimination, and divulging a password may assist in making a case against oneself.

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April 26, 2018, was a momentous day for Americans all across the country. It was not marked down in time because we finally stopped climate change in its tracks, nor was it renowned because we impeached a certain president. No, April 26th was a special occasion for us because it was the day Michael Cohen, President Trump’s attorney, pled the Fifth to avoid the looming risk of accidentally incriminating himself. In a court case against Cohen and Trump, Stormy Daniels, a prominent actress, claimed that she had an affair with Trump and was paid hush money to keep it a secret. However, rather than speaking in the succeeding trial, Cohen used his fifth amendment rights to keep his silence on the matter.

The fifth amendment, ratified in 1791, states that no one “shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself.” In layman’s terms, a defendant in a case does not have to answer any questions or say anything he does not wish to speak. Many people, unaware of the fifth amendment, have been wrongfully convicted of a crime for inadvertently providing evidence against themselves in a trial.

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DACA is a program that gives young unauthorized immigrants the chance to work, acquire a driver’s license, visit other places in America, and enjoy many other benefits bestowed on them by their program. In June 2012, Obama created DACA to support immigrants in our country- but Trump (unsuccessfully) attempted to end the program in 2017. Soon after Trump’s failure to remove the program, the Supreme Court ruled that Trump had violated the rights set by the fifth amendment by forcing DACA (or trying to, at least) to end without due process, which lays out Americans’ right to fair treatment by the government (no one “shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law”- basically, people must go through a fair trial/judgement under the government before their life, freedom, or property is taken from them.

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In February 2018, a man known as Michael Currier was accused of breaking and entering, grand larceny, and possessing a firearm after being convicted of a crime. He was given 3 separate trials for each of these offenses, yet all of them were connected to one incident where Currier supposedly burgled a house, taking a bundle of money and numerous firearms. The jury in the first trial bought the story he presented, and he was given a verdict of “not guilty”. The people at the second trial, however, were not so gullible, and Currier was convicted and locked in prison for 5 years. Now, Currier is posing a question: should he have been given three separate trials for offenses related to one event? The fifth amendment, ratified in 1791, states that one cannot be tried twice for the same crime- a right known as double jeopardy. But it has been more than two centuries, and our views on political issues have adapted and shifted over time. Currier had consented to removing the charges from his first trial and shifting them to a second and third, so the Virginia Supreme Court issued an official statement that Currier’s trials had not violated the double jeopardy clause.