ABAJ: Compelled-password decision is ‘death knell’ for Fifth Amendment, state justice argues

ABAJ: Compelled-password decision is ‘death knell’ for Fifth Amendment, state justice argues by Debra Cassens Weiss:

A defendant can be compelled to enter a password to his cellphone as long as prosecutors prove just one thing, Massachusetts’ top court has ruled.

Prosecutors must show beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant knows the password, according to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Prosecutors met that burden in the case of Dennis Jones, who was accused of sex trafficking a woman he met online, the court said. Courthouse News Service and the Boston Globe covered the March 6 decision.

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