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imh on March 21, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Man jailed indefinitely for refusing to decrypt ha...

I've never understood the foregone conclusion doctrine. If it's a foregone conclusion, the search should be unnecessary, not a special privilege.

IIRC, he also stated that he has forgotten his password (and after 18 months, it has become believable).

Godel_unicode on March 21, 2017 | [–]

The forgotten password is my concern here, God help you if you're an innocent person in this situation!

Edit: whether or not it's true in this instance.

fjdlwlv on March 21, 2017 | [–]

It's a forgone conclusion that the Constitution is inconvenient to law enforcement, so they ignore it or try to change its meaning.

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