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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: How does pleading the fifth not equate to an admission of guilt to a jury?
gpt
Because the jury is not permitted to consider taking the fifth as an admission of guilt.

Also, it's important to remember that the jury will never hear a defendant assert his Fifth Amendment rights on the stand, because the defendant won't even be on the stand unless they have already waived their Fifth Amendment rights. The only people who they will hear take the Fifth are other witnesses who are not charged in that proceeding.