alt Hacker News> they cannot use that fact against you to prove it was in fact you driving- they have to prove that independently.
5th amendment protections are much weaker for civil cases though.
> they cannot use that fact against you to prove it was in fact you driving- they have to prove that independently.
5th amendment protections are much weaker for civil cases though.
Part of this judgement was that even though the law labels is as "civil" it looks and acts in fact like a criminal case, and so it doesn't matter what label they put on it, criminal standards apply.