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Garrity Rights: Protecting Law Enforcement Against Self-Incrimination<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Fifth Amendment<\/a> of the United States Constitution protects individuals involved in criminal cases from being required to testify if such testimony may incriminate them. Garrity rights, also known as Garrity protection or a Garrity warning, are rights for law enforcement officers and other public servants based on this Constitutional amendment. Garrity rights are additionally based on the Fourteenth Amendment<\/a> of the Constitution, which provides for equal protection of the laws to all individuals within the State.<\/p>\n

According to garrityrights.org<\/a>, Garrity rights \u201cprotect public employees from being\u00a0compelled to incriminate<\/strong>\u00a0themselves during investigatory interviews conducted by their employers.\u201d<\/p>\n

When investigators carry out internal investigations, the public servants or police officers involved will be read a Garrity warning, similar to being read Miranda rights, to make them aware of the fact that they are not required to make incriminating statements. The incorporation of Garrity rights also allows investigations to remain within the law, preventing coerced statements from being used in a court of law.<\/p>\n

Garrity Rights: Background<\/strong><\/h3>\n

In 1961, New Jersey police chief Edward Garrity became the focus of an investigation involving traffic tickets. Garrity and other employees, while being warned that anything they said could be used against them in a court of law, were also threatened with being fired from their jobs if they refused to answer the investigators\u2019 questions. As a result of these coerced statements which were self-incriminating, Garrity and the other employees were ultimately criminally convicted in a court of law.<\/p>\n

In 1967, the case went to the supreme court as Garrity v. New Jersey<\/em><\/a> where it was ruled that:<\/p>\n