Phone-unlocking case law is "total mess," may be ripe for Supreme Court review.

Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police, court rules::Phone-unlocking case law is “total mess,” may be ripe for Supreme Court review.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldEnglish
    310·
    11 months ago

    I dunno, how many Jan. 6’ers got convicted by the contents of their phones? :)

    • Chee_Koala@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      11 months ago

      “well, this possible violation of the 5th could have similar results as this other time when i liked the results so…??? should we???”

    • starman2112@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      11 months ago

      My understanding was that most of them got got because their cell companies knew where they were, not because of the contents of their phones

      But also, I’d rather let every Jan Sixer go free than imprison one innocent person because they looked up textiles.com two years ago and found out how to make meth