This is a bad decision.
The average person is not a defense lawyer and doesn’t know that you can forfeit your 5th amendment rights by answering a question. I just learned that myself in the last month as part of the IRS thing.
If excorcising your fifth amendment rights can be used against you as an implication of guilt then you have no fifth amendment right.
I hope they appeal.
From the Supreme Court, the only appeal is to God.