On 4/26/2011 11:06 PM, Henry Paul wrote: > Maybe I don't have a proper understanding of the 5th Amendment, but my > understanding is it is to protect you from providing self-incriminating > testimony, not self-incriminating evidence. Maybe it's the digital vs. > tangible argument again perhaps, but in a murder trial I doubt you would > be able to deny an order to hand over blood-soaked clothes under the > protection of the 5th. > > --Henry An excellent point. I think my statement regarding 5th Amendment protection would be false with that in mind. I still don't know how not giving them encryption passphrases would work out, but there we go for one facet of the thought.
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