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The Cops Can Take Away Your Cash, Car, Or House — Even If You're Never Convicted Of A Crime
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| 08/07/2013
| Erin Fuchs
Posted on 08/07/2013 7:08:09 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: Vendome
Well sure. They could walk in and demand proof any time they liked. “Hey he had a nice television, and we asked him to prove where he got it. No receipt, it was ours.”
This is a stretch, but I see very little difference in the logic.
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posted on
08/07/2013 12:12:50 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(This post coming to you today, from behind the Camelskin Curtain.)
To: Red Badger
The Cops Can Take Away Your Cash, Car, Or House, OR LIFE Even If Youre Never Convicted Of A Crime........ And most assuredly your dog!
Regards,
GtG
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posted on
08/07/2013 12:24:00 PM PDT
by
Gandalf_The_Gray
(I live in my own little world, I like it 'cuz they know me here.)
To: Red Badger
The Cops Can Take Away Your Cash, Car, Or House, OR LIFE Even If Youre Never Convicted Of A Crime........ And most assuredly your dog!
Regards,
GtG
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posted on
08/07/2013 12:24:37 PM PDT
by
Gandalf_The_Gray
(I live in my own little world, I like it 'cuz they know me here.)
To: Red Badger
The Cops Can Take Away Your Cash, Car, Or House, OR LIFE Even If Youre Never Convicted Of A Crime........ And most assuredly your dog!
Regards,
GtG
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posted on
08/07/2013 12:25:43 PM PDT
by
Gandalf_The_Gray
(I live in my own little world, I like it 'cuz they know me here.)
To: Responsibility2nd
Civil forfeitures involving innocent people are rare and hardly happen.. How, exactly, do you know this?
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posted on
08/07/2013 12:31:26 PM PDT
by
gogeo
(I didn't leave the Republcan Party, it left me.)
To: DoughtyOne
Looking around my home office as I type and not onky can I not recall where I bought the TV, the monitors for my computers, DVD player, ohones, some furniture, fans etc, etc...I also can’t recall what I paid for them or if they were paid for by plastic or dinero’s.
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posted on
08/07/2013 12:56:22 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
To: Vendome
Good point. A few items in my office were provided by a company I no longer work for, but were outdated such that at the point of our parting of the ways that they just left the stuff in my office. How would I verify that?
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posted on
08/07/2013 1:04:58 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(This post coming to you today, from behind the Camelskin Curtain.)
To: BenLurkin
I have never understood how this practice has survived legal challenges.
Once again, asset forfiture is enabled by lawyer’s twisting words. If you look at the paperwork, it will say something like:
“USA vs. $5,000 cash” for the crime of being the proceeds of illegal acts And since cash is not a person, it has no rights.
The Statute then says that if you claim this cash, you must post a bond in order to get into court to claim it, and then must prove by a preponderance of evidence that it was not ill gotten goods.
The FBI has taken this trick a step farther — they accuse you of a crime, the seize all of your assets so you will not have any money to hire attorneys to defend you.
To: Vendome
Why? Is it against the law to travel with so much cash?No, but it sure isn't smart. Robbery comes to mind.
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posted on
08/08/2013 6:20:43 AM PDT
by
MEGoody
(You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
To: MEGoody
True Dat.
However, it is legal, lawful and a matter of course for good many people.
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posted on
08/08/2013 8:11:29 AM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
To: SeekAndFind
I-10 through Louisiana was once infamous for local police “window shopping” expensive cars with out of state tags to seize under any pretext. You’d have to sue in their jurisdiction to try to get it back. May still be for all I know.
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