How is this practice legal? What is the gray area I am not seeing?
Is it because of drug dealers? We have to abandon all due process to stop drug trafficking?
42 sats \ 1 reply \ @nullcount 17 Sep
When laws are unjust, its our duty to be criminals.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve OP 17 Sep
Foreword by Alan Dershowitz
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21 sats \ 4 replies \ @siggy47 17 Sep
This case was really outrageous.
https://reason.com/2023/12/06/the-fbi-seized-their-safe-deposit-boxes-now-a-federal-court-will-hear-the-case/
Governments say cash payments are associated with criminal activity, then seize the cash without proof. It's pure theft. In the jurisdiction where I practiced it was just understood that a defendant would never get back any personal property that was seized during a search, whether the person was found guilty or not. I tried, but was always told the items were lost. I have even had cases where the FBI did this.
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86 sats \ 3 replies \ @Bell_curve OP 18 Sep
This was in Beverly Hills. I remember this seizure.
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21 sats \ 2 replies \ @siggy47 18 Sep
Yep. It's disturbing what law enforcement can get away with.
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43 sats \ 1 reply \ @Bell_curve OP 18 Sep
One of the lawyers arguing the case
Ninth circuit tends to be motivated by politics not legal principles
When the case went before a lower court last year, federal Judge Gary Klausner ruled that the FBI's inventory of the seized safe deposit boxes was legal, despite acknowledging that attorneys for the plaintiffs "have certainly shown that the government had a dual motive in inventorying the contents of each deposit box."
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @nitter 18 Sep bot
https://xcancel.com/freerangelawyer/status/1732144054253568305
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @fm 17 Sep
What?
You thougth for a minute in the land of the free you could send your cash freely on courrier.. Think again
Actually the company warns you you cant send money that way.. But there are special services that carry money. You just need to pay ectra and probably be flagged on some list.
Obviously drug money must be the biggest problem
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