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Re:Police can’t demand you reveal your phone passcode then t... by jjk166 on Friday October 22, 2021 @10:06AM (#28957332)
You don't get justice in a police station, you get justice in a courtroom. The cops may do all sorts of things to you that they're not supposed to, and there's nothing you can do to stop them. But now you have a good chance of getting the whole case, or at least any evidence they obtain as a result of these actions thrown out the window, and potentially stand to gain from a profitable civil suit.

Be compliant, be quiet, be observant, lawyer up.

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Re:Police can’t demand you reveal your phone passcode then t... by magicalist on Friday October 22, 2021 @10:53AM (#28958011)
> You don't get justice in a police station, you get justice in a courtroom. The cops may do all sorts of things to you that they're not supposed to, and there's nothing you can do to stop them. But now you have a good chance of getting the whole case, or at least any evidence they obtain as a result of these actions thrown out the window, and potentially stand to gain from a profitable civil suit.

Much more likely that you'll be offered a plea bargain to either end it with time served or go to trial and be threatened with 15 years or whatever. Then you have to balance just having it be done against how much you want to risk a jury having a bad day, lawyer bills, and months or years of process to maybe have a moral victory when the judge says "yeah, this evidence is inadmissible". Meanwhile you're not getting a payout unless they beat you and it's on camera.

The system knows how to take care of itself.

edit if you'd like to know more: https://www.cato.org/commentary/prisons-are-packed-because-p...

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Re:Police can’t demand you reveal your phone passcode then t... by kingcharles on Friday October 22, 2021 @01:44PM (#28960219)
I was offered release on my first court date if I plead guilty. Instead I spent over 8 years in a county jail waiting for justice.
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Re:Police can’t demand you reveal your phone passcode then t... by pdimitar on Friday October 22, 2021 @10:10AM (#28957380)
Technically you are right but 99% of us have places to be and things to do. Most will suck it up and never even mention it.

I don't like it and nobody likes it, but it's very often the case. :(

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Re:Police can’t demand you reveal your phone passcode then t... by zionic on Friday October 22, 2021 @11:01AM (#28958100)
>The cops may do all sorts of things to you that they're not supposed to, and there's nothing you can do to stop them.

Well, this isn't strictly true. But it's a quick way to get to 5 stars.

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