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Choose whether you want this discussion to focus on the Fifth or Sixth Amendments to the

Choose whether you want this discussion to focus on the Fifth or Sixth Amendments to the Constitution. 
Refer to Chapter 12 of your textbook.
Use the Strayer University Library and/or the Internet to conduct independent research on your selected amendment.  You may find the CQ Supreme Court Collection database useful as you conduct your research.
This less than two-minute video, called Finding Supreme Court Cases Relating to Specific Amendments, shows you how to search for cases by amendment.

Please respond to the following in a substantive post:
Provide the Fifth or Sixth Amendment along with your interpretation of it and its importance. 
Illustrate with an example how the amendment applies to a player and a step in the criminal justice process (for example, Fourth Amendment—law enforcement—arrest).  Refer to 3Ps of Criminal Justice: Players, Process, and Procedure graphic (left-hand menu).
Be sure to supply your example.

Illustrate with an example, from case law or contemporary articles, of how your selected amendment applies to the particular player and step in the criminal justice process.