US Jailing Citizens For Refusing Crypto / Phone Passwords

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http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/broward/article153373524.html
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/17/06/01/204208/man-sentenced-to-180-days-in-jail-for-refusing-to-give-police-his-iphone-passcode

A Hollywood man must serve 180 days in jail for refusing to give up
his iPhone password to police, a Broward judge ruled Tuesday -- the
latest salvo in intensifying legal battles over law-enforcement access
to smartphones. Christopher Wheeler, 41, was taken into custody in a
Broward Circuit Court, insisting he had already provided the pass code
to police investigating him for child abuse, although the number did
not work. "I swear, under oath, I've given them the password," a
distraught Wheeler, his hands handcuffed behind his back, told Circuit
Judge Michael Rothschild, who earlier in May found the man guilty of
contempt of court. As Wheeler was jailed Tuesday, the same issue was
unfolding in Miami-Dade for a man accused of extorting a social-media
celebrity over stolen sex videos. That man, Wesley Victor, and his
girlfriend had been ordered by a judge to produce a passcode to phones
suspected of containing text messages showing their collusion in an
extortion plot. Victor claimed he didn't remember the number. He
prevailed. On Tuesday, Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Charles Johnson ruled
that there was no way to prove that Victor actually remembered his
passcode, more than 10 months after his initial arrest. Johnson
declined to hold the man in contempt of court. Wheeler will eventually
be allowed to post bond pending an appeal. If he gives up a working
pass code, he'll be allowed out of jail, Judge Rothschild told him.