Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 3/6/2019

Commonwealth v. Jones

Citations

117 N.E.3d 702
481 Mass. 540

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concluding that state constitution requires the state “to prove that a defendant knows the password to decrypt an electronic device beyond a reason- able doubt for the foregone conclusion doctrine to apply”
explaining that the Massachusetts Constitution “requires the Commonwealth to prove that a defendant knows the password to decrypt an electronic device beyond a reasonable doubt for the foregone conclusion exception to apply”
remanding for entry of order compelling defendant to enter password into cell phone for which Commonwealth had search warrant

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Judges: Budd, Cypher, Gants, Gaziano, Kafker, Lenk, Lowy

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