Phones and the Fifth (Episode 7)

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Can the Government force you to give up your iPhone passcode? The answer might surprise you. We cover self-incrimination this week, along with the Paris Climate Agreement, Kathy Griffin, the latest London attacks, California targeting racially-biased juries, the stunning exposé on corruption in North Carolina’s prisons, and a lot more legal news from the past week!

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Show Notes:

• Velveeta Vladimir learned alliteration! (CNN)
• Everyone wet their pants about Kathy Griffin (TMZ)
• We kill politicians in effigy annually here in NC (Horn in the West)
• The most popular TV show in history had W’s head on a pike (Gizmodo)
• And killing politicians is part of Virginia’s state seal (Wikipedia)
• Mango Mussolini wants your guns (Twitter)
• And doesn’t much care about your rights either (Twitter)
• But he apparently cares more about London than Lansing? (Twitter)
• The latest from London (The Guardian)
• SCOTUS unanimously incentivizes more police brutality in Los Angeles v Mendez (SCOTUS.gov)
• CALIFORNIA: State Supreme Court tackles racially-biased juries (LA Times)
• FLORIDA: Man jailed for giving police a bad passcode (Miami Herald)
• LOUISIANA: 12-year-old “Sammie” is killed in Baton Rouge (WBRZ-2)
• MICHIGAN: Desmond Ricks goes free after spending 25 years for a murder he didn’t commit (CBS News)
• NORTH CAROLINA: A *HUGE* mammoth enormous dynamite bombshell series on NC’s prisons (Charlotte Observer)
• NORTH CAROLINA: Charges are imminent against 2 North Carolina District Attorneys (Greensboro News & Record)
• OHIO: The killer cop who murdered 12-year-old Tamir Rice has been fired (The Atlantic)
• The Fifth Amendment to the Constitution (Wikipedia)
• United States v Wade (Oyez)
• Fisher v United States (Oyez)
• United States v. Hubbell (Oyez)
• An excellent self-incrimination summary (Legal Information Institute)
• The UNC SOG has a good piece on phones and the Fifth here (UNC School of Government)
• Along with this follow-up piece (UNC School of Government)
• And here’s a good law review article (NC JOLT)