Posted on 12/13/2002 6:25:09 AM PST by Wolfie
Well, then I guess it's a good thing that the elves will provide supplies to the prison system and the leprechauns will dig into the pot o' gold to pay prison staff salaries.
You are assuming that they have been convicted. Fine. This is about siezing property from citizens without a conviction. In fact, exoneration in criminal court is not enough to get your property back.
Your not real good at reading complete sentences or grasping main points are you?
When Willie Jones, a Nashville landscaper, paid cash for an airline ticket, city police suspected him of being a drug dealer. They searched him, found no drugs, but seized the $9,000 he was planning to bring on his flight to Houston to buy shrubs for his business. It took Jones two years and a federal lawsuit to get his money back.
In 1998, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Houston seized a Red Carpet Motel, located in a high-crime area of the city. While there were no allegations that the hotel owners participated in any crimes, the prosecutor claimed that the motel deserved to be seized and forfeited because management had failed to implement all of the "security measures" dictated by law enforcement officials, such as raising room rates. After several months of bad publicity, the U.S. Attorney finally returned the motel to its owners, who were never compensated for the loss of business or legal expenses.
In 1993, Chicago police, acting on a tip from a burglary suspect, searched the family-owned Congress Pizzeria looking for stolen property. They found none. But they did find $506,231 in cash, which they promptly seized from owner Anthony Lombardo. The government later argued that it should be allowed to keep Lombardo's money because he must have been involved in narcotics trafficking since most people don't have that kind of cash lying around. It was Lombardo's burden to prove otherwise. In 1997, a federal appeals court issued a stinging criticism of the government's conduct in this case and ordered the money returned.
You might get you property back eventually, if you have the means and tenacity to sue for it. Many lose all their assest, and so do not have the means to take legal action.
ROTFLMAO
Kind of impressed me that she was not on the inside loop for some reason. I also noticed that she is no longer employed in LE.
There was a story a couple of years ago, in Massachusetts I think, about a guy who was not hired by the local police department so he filed a discrimination suite. The reason he was not hired and the discrimination bases of his suit? He had too high of an I.Q., a fact which was readily admitted by the police department.
A2J gives validity to that being an established practice of LE
Do you think certificates are invalid unless issued by a gov. agency? Shows a lot about your mindset doesn't it?
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