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cr125rider | 25 days ago

Fourth and Fifth amendments disagree

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lm28469|25 days ago

Sure but in the real world it can take months or years, Francis Rawls stayed 4 years in jail because he didn't want to unlock hard drives.

twelvedogs|25 days ago

I don't think we're doing amendments any more

ddtaylor|25 days ago

And if we are it will be a new one with a high number and it will be pure insanity

kyrra|25 days ago

People are jailed for contempt of court for failing to provide passwords.

https://reason.com/2017/05/31/florida-man-jailed-180-days-fo...

fluoridation|25 days ago

Wow, so US judges are just making it up as they go along, huh? It's like every case is a different judgement with no consistent criterion.

>Doe vs. U.S. That case centered around whether the feds could force a suspect to sign consent forms permitting foreign banks to produce any account records that he may have. In Doe, the justices ruled that the government did have that power, since the forms did not require the defendant to confirm or deny the presence of the records.

Well, what if the defendant was innocent of that charge but guilty of or involved in an unrelated matter for which there was evidence in the account records?