Totally agree, but totally disagree with the headline.
Have you ever watched cops, or first 24? If criminals didn't implicate themselves and confess under questioning I'll bet the number of cases solved would go down by 50%. It seems like it's how they "solve" most of them.
"...; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself,...". It your RIGHT to refuse to answer questions/remain silent for certain, and this case does not change that. This wasn't about compelling a criminal in custody to confess, it was about disallowing a confession gained under questioning to then create a basis for a law suit.
The idiot could have shut up, but it seems without question that he was acquitted for a crime he did, indeed, commit and confessed to, and then he wants to compound the failure of the court system by suing for damages because he is a retard and talked.
Kagan wrote the dissent with Sotomayor and Breyer. This is basically an anti-criminal ruling, not about the 5th, but about being allowed to sued after the fact for self incrimination.