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Second Circuit holds that prosecution's reliance on criminal defendant's tattoo to establish guilt did not violate that defendant's Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination

Second Circuit holds that prosecution's reliance on criminal defendant's tattoo to establish guilt did not violate that defendant's Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination: You can access today's interesting ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit at this link.

Today's ruling reasons that, although the tattoo was used in a manner that was testimonial and incriminating, the voluntary tattooing of an incriminating word on the defendant's arm was not the result of government compulsion, and therefore no Fifth Amendment violation occurred.

Full post as published by How Appealing on February 04, 2011 (boomark / email).