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I will say the constitution explicitly mentions criminal cases, so if this was a civil case i understand why she was compelled.Your Fifth Amendment rights only apply when you can be incriminated and face prosecution. You most definitely can be compelled to testify if granted immunity. And in a civil case, your refusal to testify can be held against you. You can also refuse to testify outright in a criminal trial, but you don't get to pick and choose what you answer.
Maxwell did in fact refuse to testify in her criminal case.
Additionally, it's a mixed question whether you can be compelled to testify in a civil case about a crime you're already convicted of, since conceivably your testimony could implicate you in other crimes. I'm not entirely sure what happened in the civil case. It's hundreds of docket entries long and pretty cumbersome. But she apparently chose to answer some questions and tried to pick and choose what she would answer, and that's going to get you in trouble.
I didn't know all this, and honestly i think lumped the two trials together in my mind.I do know back in 2020, she got the civil case stayed until the criminal case was over, which certainly impacts the Fifth Amendment analysis in the civil case.