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If you can't charge her with a crime then why are you holding her?

• tptacek 11y ago
  In order to compel her to obey the orders of the court.
  • bsder 11y ago
    If that order is lawful, then it probably has a chargeable crime behind it. If it doesn't, then there should be limit. Compelling someone to open a phone with a fingerprint is far from settled law. It should be litigated properly as part of the trial rather than with a "contempt" charge. In this instance, it is the court that is attempting to end run an unsettled area of the law using "contempt".
• rayiner 11y ago
  She was arrested based on probable cause that she had committed identity theft. The search warrant is the process by which evidence needed to support formal charges.