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> Second, of course, don't keep evidence of crimes on your phone.

Also, if you have accomplices in your crimes make sure they don't keep evidence of your involvement on their phones.

The Fifth Amendment covers self-incrimination. It doesn't cover incrimination against others.

A prosecutor can grant one of your accomplices immunity to prosecution based on any evidence found on their phone about their crimes, and then it is fine under the Fifth Amendment to force them to unlock their phone and then use any evidence of your crimes found on their phone against you.



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