Saying courts across the country are “struggling to find common legal ground” on the issue, a divided Florida appeals court sided with a criminal defendant who fought turning over his cellphone passcode to police.

The ruling by a panel of the First District Court of Appeal in a 2018 Alachua County robbery case came after two other state appellate courts came to different conclusions about forcing defendants to supply passcodes to unlock cellphones.

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