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Sometimes human memory is such a place under the fifth amendment.


The contents of your human memory are not protected as a general principle. For example, you can be compelled to testify against someone else. You can't be compelled to testify against yourself, but the premise of that protection isn't some general right not to disclose the contents of your memory, but a very specific right against forced confessions.




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