It could turn as red as the Nile and the implication would be lost on them.

Followed by frogs, gnats, flies, livestock(screw worm’s here), boils, hail, locust, 3 days of darkness, and death of the first born.

God’s own hand and voice could decree their deeds to be upon their own shoulders and they would deny it still.

They could put a mirror finish on the bottom and fill it with quick set epoxy.

“Your data center free trial period has ended. To continue building or using your data center, you will need to pay a subscription of [taxes, utilities, fines for noise violations…]”

So their entire case was based around information they thought was on this phone.

Sounds like a very weak case.

…or was there some parallel construction BS and they needed the phone to justify how they actually (illegally) collected evidence against this person?