Post #51393
2025-12-11 03:44 UTC
Another case is if they get a warrant for whatever’s on your phone, you knew, and then erased your phone.
Warrants make more sense, because a warrant can be issued just due to probable cause. They need that cause, but that cause doesn’t have to be directly related to your phone. Once you know they have a warrant to search it, you would qualify as “knowingly” altering or destroying evidence.
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@Imgonnatrythis__dup_15263@sh.itjust.works 2025-12-11 05:33
Erasing one’s phone if you had a warrant for search is exactly what I would advise someone to do. Take your chances the evidence destroying charge over handing over what they might use against you unknowingly. For all I know my stash of articles on the efficacy of vaccines could be deemed contraband in this day and age or perhaps my trans cake fart video library now violates a state law with each video bearing a one year prison sentence. There’s a term for anyone that trusts the US legal system is going to treat them justly and that’s “damn fool”