Any and all future court cases stemming from the data that was on that phone.
If it became known that the evidence was acquired illegally, by long standing precedence, that evidence would be tainted and the case would be dismissed.
Would you be happy to have a decade's worth of terrorist convictions thrown out on a technicality?
Instead of making a public case against Apple to break it, even though they already really have what is on it, so that they would have a cover story on how they got it in court, why didn’t they just plan to say this other private company got it for them when the time comes? Why let Apple make a big deal about it in public? How does this help?
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