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there's no doubt that it was wiped literally as it was being held by the government for search.
Technically, it was the government itself that was responsible for the destruction of property:
Tunick provided this code to an agent, who entered it on the phone, after which “the screen went blank, flashed several times and the phone appeared to restart.” All data on the phone was gone, but authorities confiscated it anyway.
As someone upthread has said:
"Oh, that's strange, officer. I don't understand how that could have happened. You must have done something incorrectly."
