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A trial for what ?
If you can't charge her with a crime then why are you holding her?
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"I just turned it off since the battery wears down really quickly and I thought I might need it to make a call later." Difficult to prove.
Difficult to prove and illegal. Like lots of things.
>a criminal is holding a piece of your property thats what a fucking search warrant is for. are you dense ?
Personal attacks aren't allowed on HN. We ban accounts that do this; please don't do it again. We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11613437 and marked it off-topic.
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If you can't charge her with a crime then why are you holding her?
In order to compel her to obey the orders of the court.
Compelling someone to open a phone with a fingerprint is far from settled law. It should be litigated properly as part of the trial rather than with a "contempt" charge.
In this instance, it is the court that is attempting to end run an unsettled area of the law using "contempt".
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"I just turned it off since the battery wears down really quickly and I thought I might need it to make a call later." Difficult to prove.
Difficult to prove and illegal. Like lots of things.
Any muppet attorney can come up with a hundred reasons why this was a perfectly reasonable thing to do.