"Is there a pin code on your phone? Do you know what it is?"
Patterson replies, however the phone unlocks without a pin code, and is taken by the detective.
"Makes your job easy," Patterson quips.
The device, which came to be nicknamed Phone B, had already been factory reset by Patterson, who managed to remotely wipe the device a final time after it was in a police safe.
During Patterson's trial, prosecutors said nothing meaningful was found on the Samsung device.
The main phone Patterson had been using in the lead-up to the lunch, nicknamed Phone A, was never located.
However, officers were able to retrieve cell tower data, which placed Phone A in the vicinity of sites where death cap mushrooms were growing.
Patterson denied hiding Phone A, and insisted it had been missed by officers who searched her home. [bbm]
Yeah, sure it was missed by police because she either hid it or diposed of it.