In re Impounded: When will the right against self-incrimination protect witnesses from foreign prosecution?

I. INTRODUCTION

Though many think that their constitutional rights are inviolate, the Supreme Court has held in at least one case that certain rights do not apply to United States citizens on United States soil. In 1998, the Supreme Court decided that a man who immigrated to the United States nearly forty years ago should have no constitutional protection under the Fifth Amendment right to silence because he did not face criminal prosecution in this country. Because he could not invoke his right to silence, the man was required to testify about his activities during World War II in an extradition hearing. Should the constitutionally guaranteed right against self-incrimination …