Miami court sentences man to six months for not unlocking his iPhone

US JUDGES have set two different precedents in cases where a suspect has refused to give the PIN to unlock their mobile phone when asked to do so by authorities.The Miami Herald reports that a Hollywood resident has been jailed for 180 days after the number he provided police with did not work.Christopher Wheeler, 41, was being investigated for child abuse and a judge found him in contempt of court, despite insisting he had given the right number.”I swear, under oath, I’ve given them the password,” said Wheeler, who is said to have ‘hit and scratched’ his daughter. Wheeler has been told he will be let out on bond, pending an appeal, but only if he provides a working passcode.Meanwhile, elsewhere in Miami, Florida, a separate extortion allegation provided a similar dilemma, but in this case, a judge ruled that there was no way of proving that the accused, Wesley Victor could remember his PIN, a full ten months after his arrest. The accused’s girlfriend, reality TV star Hench Voigt, also implicated in the plot, has “forgotten” her PIN too and will explain herself to the judge next week. The couple are accused of trying to blackmail a social media celebrity (an oxymoron, surely) called YesJulz (!) out of $18,000 over some alleged sex tapes they may or may not have.

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