I'm not a lawyer, but the minute she started pleading her innocence, I was yelling at the television, "That's not pleading the fifth! That's testifying! She can't plead the fifth now!"
Anybody with a television-watching, psuedo law degree knows that.
In my travels around the ‘net today I read somewhere that if she read a statement defending herself that the 5th was null. It was something about she got to officially tell her version without allowing questions and you can’t do that. That allows your version to stand unopposed and that’s not what the 5th is about.
Yup...we began our education long ago. Before 'ol Ironside landed himself in a wheelchair, we was learnin'. Que the theme song