You know, the same thing happens to me every time the FBI takes my phones.
Everyone should do this!!! No one who wants your phone code is your friend! Police, feds, spouses/partners. If anyone wants to unlock your phone, they’re looking to incriminate.
No, not everyone. If I’m a public servant, I should be using work phones for work stuff. And I should expect any government-sanctioned investigation office to have access to it.
It would be a different thing if it was his personal phone. In that case, I could agree with you.
I really hate to defend this guy because he clearly sucks. But honestly: smart move. Your phone password and much of the contents of your phone should be considered speech and you shouldn’t be compelled to testify against yourself. That said, if this phone was government property then he shouldn’t have been the only one capable of unlocking it, which is a policy failure.
Recorded speech about engaging in crimes is often acceptable evidence. It’s probably the same with written messages.
I guess it’s up to the accused to prevent law enforcement from acquiring what they said, whether it be preventing recording, preventing police from sifting through mail or unsecure communications, or preventing police from acquiring the accused’s copy of potentially illegal communications. Which he is currently attempting.
I don’t blame him for trying, and would agree on a lesser extent that he is right to prevent self incriminating now. But copied communication as acceptable evidence is pretty settled in law by now.
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If anyone ever takes my phone and asks for the password, I forgot it. Guilty or innocent, doesn’t matter.
FBI: “Darn! So did we!”