New Jersey To High Court: Ordered Phone Unlocking Doesn’t Violate 5th Amendment

Mealey's (April 9, 2021, 12:53 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In an April 2 brief, New Jersey asks the U.S. Supreme Court to deny a former sheriff’s officer’s petition for certiorari in which he challenges the constitutionality of a subpoena requiring him to unlock his password-protected smartphone, arguing that the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is not implicated and suggesting that the high court lacks jurisdiction over the matter....