Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit September 21, 2001, 00-2172 (Thomas E. Harris v. City of Chicago and Alex D. Ramos, Officer, Individually, and as a Police Officer for the City of Chicago, Illinois)

KANNE, Circuit Judge.

During discovery in this civil case, defendant-appellee Alex Ramos refused to respond to a number of discovery requests, instead invoking his Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination. At trial, however, Ramos answered all questions posed to him on direct and cross-examination, and all evidence of his prior

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silence was excluded.