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To: Political Junkie Too

Can the court compel you to provide a combination to a safe found in your home? There is some dicta that says that a court can compel you to provide a key to a lockbox and that is somehow different from compelling you to provide a combination. IOW, this conversation is not about what the law says but about what the law should be.


28 posted on 05/09/2016 2:43:24 PM PDT by DugwayDuke ("A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest")
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To: DugwayDuke

If there is a search warrant, I would say they can ask you to open the safe or take the safe until they can open it. I would be surprised to find that by putting something in a safe, you can prevent the police from carrying out a lawful court order.


30 posted on 05/09/2016 2:49:12 PM PDT by morphing libertarian (Hillary for Prison 2016.)
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To: DugwayDuke
I don't know. That's a different hypothetical than the one I responded to, so I have no opinion on it.

-PJ

31 posted on 05/09/2016 2:53:05 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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