Phones and the Fifth

Can the Government force you to give up your iPhone passcode? The answer might surprise you. We cover self-incrimination this week, along with the Paris Climate Agreement, Kathy Griffin, the latest London attacks, California targeting racially-biased juries, the stunning exposé on corruption in North Carolina’s prisons, and a lot more legal news from the past week! Join the conversation by following @fsckemall on Twitter, and tweet us your comments and questions using the hashtag #fsck! Show Notes: * Velveeta Vladimir learned alliteration! (CNN) * Everyone wet their pants about Kathy Griffin (TMZ) * We kill politicians in effigy annually here in NC (Horn in the West) * The most popular TV show in history had W’s head on a pike (Gizmodo) * And killing politicians is part of Virginia’s state seal (Wikipedia) * Mango Mussolini wants your guns (Twitter) * And doesn’t much care about your rights either (Twitter) * But he apparently cares more about London than Lansing? (Twitter) * The latest from London (The Guardian) * The killer cop who murdered 12-year-old Tamir Rice has been fired (The Atlantic) * 12-year-old “Sammie” is killed in Louisiana (WBRZ-2) * California’s Supreme Court tackles racially-biased juries (Los Angeles Times) * Desmond Ricks goes free after spending 25 years for a murder he didn’t commit (CBS News) * SCOTUS unanimously incentivizes more police brutality in Los Angeles v Mendez (SCOTUS.gov) * A *HUGE* mammoth enormous dynamite bombshell series on NC’s prisons (The Charlotte Observer) * Charges are imminent against 2 North Carolina District Attorneys (Greensboro News & Record) * A Florida man is jailed for giving police a bad passcode (Miami Herald) * The Fifth Amendment to the Constitution (Wikipedia) * United States v Wade (Oyez) * Fisher v United States (Oyez) * United States v.