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Rawls, incarcerated since September 2015, moved for release, arguing that 28 U.S.C. The Third Circuit affirmed a civil contempt finding.
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Rawls stated that he could not remember the passwords for the hard drives. Rawls decrypted the iPhone, which contained 20 photographs that focused on the genitals of Rawls’ six-year-old niece. The court denied Rawls’ motion, reasoning the act of decrypting the devices would not be testimonial. Rawls cited the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination. A Magistrate ordered Rawls to unencrypt the devices. Rawls’ sister stated that Rawls had shown her child pornography on the external hard drives. Those files were stored on the external hard drives. The Mac Pro revealed an image of a pubescent girl in a sexually provocative position, logs showing that it had visited likely child exploitation websites and that Rawls had downloaded thousands of files known to be child pornography.
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With a warrant, forensic analysts discovered the password to decrypt the Mac Pro but could not determine the passwords for the external hard drives. Officers executed a search warrant at Rawls’ residence, yielding an iPhone 6 and a Mac Pro Computer with attached external hard drives, all protected with encryption software.