Read the following excerpt from a US court opinion:
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(E.D.Va. Aug. 22, 2005) (Memorandum Opinion). 5 . Lentz has sent several ex parte communications to the Court throughout the course of these proceedings, despite repeated admonitions not to do so. Most recently, on January 19, 2006, the Court received an ex parte communication from Lentz consisting of two handwritten notes contained in an envelope that itself included a handwritten note. Although Lentz sought to offer these notes as his Court-ordered handwriting exemplars, these ex parte communications are clearly insufficient in this regard as they were neither written in a controlled situation nor written in the style required of an appropriate handwriting exemplar. Even defendant himself recognizes in his ex parte communication that a handwriting d 1172, 1177 (5th Cir.1979)  (citations omitted). 8 .See, e.g., United
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What is the most suitable continuation to the opinion? Your options are:
A. recognizing that the fifth amendment forbids comment by the prosecution on a defendants failure to testify
B. recognizing that handwriting exemplars fall outside the protection of the fourth and fifth amendments and comment on the refusal to provide an exemplar is permissible
C. holding that the equal protection and due process clauses of the fifth and fourteenth amendments do not provide a sufficient basis for jurisdiction because they do not mandate payment of money by the government
D. holding that the fifth amendments protection against selfincrimination is applicable to the states through the fourteenth amendment
E. holding in a prosecution for the interstate transportation of forged securities that the government was permitted to prove and comment on a defendants refusal to produce exemplars as tending to prove his guilt of the offense charged
Reply with [A, B, C, D, E] only.