The the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution also states that “No person … shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself…”. He shouldn't be compelled to give the correct PIN which could incriminate himself. Doesn't he have the presumption of innocence? The burden should be on the part of the investigators to prove they have reasonable cause and also to prove guilt. I'm no lawyer, but amirite?
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Fifth Amendment applies to testimony, not biometric data, another loophole for the likes of Comey and Wray to exploit.
It's not that he was silent and refused to provide the password. It's that he gave a command to the device to destroy the evidence, so even if they had a fancy zero-day, it was not there to decrypt.
Right, innocence until proven guilty, like assuming our bodies are innocent of disease until proven guilty by seed oils and grains.
What are you then?
