Defendant Ordered to Decrypt Laptop May Have Forgotten Password

David Kravets reports:

A Colorado woman ordered to decrypt her laptop so prosecutors may use the files against her in a criminal case might have forgotten the password, the defendant’s attorney said Monday.

The authorities seized the Toshiba laptop from defendant Ramona Fricosu in 2010 with a court warrant while investigating alleged mortgage fraud. Ruling that the woman’s Fifth Amendment rights against compelled self-incrimination would not be breached, U.S. District Judge Robert Blackburn ordered the woman in January to decrypt the laptop.

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Since I am personally struggling to recall an encryption key that I did not write down, I am prepared to believe any claims of forgetting. But what will the court do?