Judge Rules Police Can Compel A Defendant to Give Up A Fingerprint, But Not A Passcode

The Virginian-Pilot
Oct. 31, 2014

A Circuit Court judge has ruled that a criminal defendant can be compelled to give up his fingerprint, but not his pass code, to allow police to open and search his cellphone.

The question of whether a phone's pass code is constitutionally protected surfaced in the case of David Baust, an Emergency Medical Services captain charged in February with trying to strangle his girlfriend.

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