The government NEVER had a case...and they knew it. The bottom line is that they “blinked” when filing for their “postponement.
I thought I read somewhere recently that there was a private party helping to show the government how to do this and that was the reason (speculation) why they were backing down on forcing Apple to do this. Anyone else see the same thing?
The government was humiliated in defeat . That is why they ran out the lie that they could crack the encryption on their own.