Law360, New York ( March 25, 2015, 10:22 AM EDT) -- The Fifth Amendment provides that "no person [ ] shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself."[1] Since the ratification of the Bill of Rights in 1791, the U.S. Supreme Court has never extended the privilege against self-incrimination to corporate "persons." That could soon change. A festering but virtually unnoticed circuit split over a legal doctrine the Supreme Court first recognized early last century may provide the Roberts court with the opportunity to grant corporate persons such a privilege for the first time in U.S. history....
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