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In this case, the part where the phone's owner is dead.

• ethbro 11y ago
  Do dead guys not have functional fingerprints? (Yes, I really asked that. Yes, I'm really curious.)
  • superuser2 11y ago
    He had a 5C, so wouldn't help here.
  • ethbro 11y ago
    Because I was interested and no one else chirped in, the answer is "Yes, but require some additional effort to obtain due to post-mortem stiffening." For those curious, here's a Northwestern scan of an article in The Journal of Criminal Law from the 70s (thanks, internet!): http://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5809&context=jclc http://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent...