The Fifth Amendment and Compelled Testimony: Practical Problems in the Wake of Kastigar

KASTIGAR[T]he privilege against self-incrimination is one of the great landmarks in man's struggle to make himself civilized ....[W]e do not make even the most hardened criminal sign his own death warrant, or dig his own grave, or pull the lever that springs the trap on which he stands.We have through the course of history developed a considerable feeling of the dignity and intrinsic importance of the individual man.Even the evil man is a human being.'I.