{"id":44273,"date":"2020-06-23T16:00:09","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T21:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=44273"},"modified":"2020-06-24T10:22:26","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T15:22:26","slug":"in-def-couldnt-be-held-in-contempt-for-refusing-to-unlock-cell-phone-under-5a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=44273","title":{"rendered":"IN: Def couldn&#8217;t be held in contempt for refusing to unlock cell phone pleading 5A"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cWhen Katelin Seo was placed under arrest, law enforcement took her iPhone believing it contained incriminating evidence. A detective got a warrant to search the smartphone, but he couldn&#8217;t get into the locked device without Seo&#8217;s assistance. So the detective got a second warrant that ordered Seo to unlock her iPhone. She refused, and the trial court held her in contempt. [\u00b6] We reverse the contempt order. Forcing Seo to unlock her iPhone would violate her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. By unlocking her smartphone, Seo would provide law enforcement with information it does not already know, which the State could then use in its prosecution against her. The Fifth Amendment&#8217;s protection from compelled self-incrimination prohibits this result. We thus reverse and remand.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.in.gov\/judiciary\/opinions\/pdf\/06232001lhr.pdf\">Seo v. State<\/a>, 2020 Ind. LEXIS 485 (June 23, 2020).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reason: Volokh Conspiracy: <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2020\/06\/24\/indiana-supreme-court-creates-a-clear-split-on-compelled-decryption-and-the-fifth-amendment\/\">Indiana Supreme Court Creates a Clear Split on Compelled Decryption and the Fifth Amendment<\/a> by Orin Kerr (\u201cNext stop, the U.S. Supreme Court?\u201d)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhen Katelin Seo was placed under arrest, law enforcement took her iPhone believing it contained incriminating evidence. A detective got a warrant to search the smartphone, but he couldn&#8217;t get into the locked device without Seo&#8217;s assistance. So the detective &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=44273\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cell-phones","category-privileges"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44273"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44289,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44273\/revisions\/44289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}