@hawkeye10,
Quote:Bill, it appears that you have been off on a wild goose chase, as Smith does not own the laptop and under US law he had no right to keep it from the cops
Hawkeye the link you gave clearly state that he was watching child porn on his laptop and was told to shut it down.
Now shutting down any of my or my wife computers would means that they could not be access again without my or my wife aid.
They could keep the laptop but is would be completely worthless to them as the hard drive by any known test would just be full with random digits.
Oh the ownership of the hardware does no matter on the issue of if it can be read once WDE had been put into place nor can I see how it would effect his 5 amendment rights not to give up the keys.