CNN CNN Newsroom With Fredricka Whitfield July 12, 2015 19:40:00
The supreme court sort of created that relatively recently. but the negative of that right is also the right not to testify. and any time -- it's always a very difficult decision. a defendant has to ask himself and his lawyers have to ask themselves what is the benefit. what can his testimony add and balance that against the massive risk massive risk of presenting your client to the prosecution, who may completely shred them on the stand. and, i would say statistically the result of that formula is that in the vast majority or majority of cases, especially in one like this, defendants do not t...