Opinion
CR-15-2389
06-06-2015
STATE OF MAINE. v. MARQUISE TRANT.
MOTION TO COMPEL PASSCODE
LEA-ANNE SUTTON J.
NOW COMES the Attorney for the State and moves this Court to compel the Defendant in this case to produce the passcodes to the telephone seized from him when he was arrested for the charges of Aggravated Trafficking in Sched. W Drugs. SA Brad Rogers of the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency has obtained a search warrant from a judge, who authorized such search because (here is probable cause to search said phones. However, the State is unable to execute this search warrant because the phones are protected by passcodes that cannot be unlocked. Please see attached affidavit. Wherefore, in order to execute this search warrant, the State asks that this Court compel the Defendant to produce the passcodes for each phone. The State does not need to know what the passcode is. The State asserts that production of the passcode is not testimonial. The Defendant objects to producing the passcode. The State asks that this matter be set for a bearing on this issue.
ORDER
Upon the State's Motion, it is hereby ORDERED that the Defendant be compelled to produce the passcode for each phone seized from him, so that law enforcement can execute a judicially authorized search warrant in this case.
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