City of Crawford, Texas v. DCDH Development, LLC

How courts have described this case

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• compelling defendant to enter passcode into encrypted computers did not violate the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination
• requiring defendant to enter encryption key to unlock computers seized by police not violation of Fifth Amendment, because defendant already said computers were his
• Commonwealth may compel a testimonial and incriminating act of production if it can establish that \the information that would be disclosed by [a] defendant is a 'foregone conclusion'\
• Commonwealth may compel a testimonial and incriminating act of production if it can establish that “the information that would be disclosed by [a] defendant is a ‘foregone conclusion’ ”
• “[T]he entry of the encryption key or password presumably would be incriminating because ‘it would furnish the Government with a link in the chain of evidence leading to [the defendant’s] indictment.’ ” (second alteration in original
• act of providing passcode is not testimonial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).