Compulsory self-incrimination prohibited.
Article 24
ART. 24. Compulsory self-incrimination prohibited.—No witness before a military court, commission, court of inquiry, or board, or before any officer conducting an investigation, or before any officer, military or civil, designated to take a deposition to be read in evidence before a military court, commission, court of inquiry or board, or before an officer conducting an investigation, shall be compelled to incriminate himself, or to answer any question not material to the issue when such answer might tend to degrade him.