Supreme Court unanimously votes against excessive civil asset forfeiture

[Gulo Blue]

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...t-unanimously-says-states-cant-steal-your-car


This issue has been around long enough and has been publicized so much, I didn't expect it to be unanimous. But there it is. All of them took the drug dealer side.

 

[Gulo Blue]

So does this mean that if you deal drugs from an expensive car, you can keep your car, but if you deal drugs from a car worth less than $10,000, they can take it?

 

[tinselwolverine]

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...t-unanimously-says-states-cant-steal-your-car


This issue has been around long enough and has been publicized so much, I didn't expect it to be unanimous. But there it is. All of them took the drug dealer side.

It?s always been a due process issue. The words don?t appear in the article, but there is a link at the bottom of the article to ?due process? and it links back to the story under the category headline of ?due process stories.?

 

[Spartanmack]

lots of cities have been abusing the seizure rules for years by confiscating cash from anyone carrying what an investigating officers considers excessive under "suspicion of drug dealing." There are all kinds of stories about people getting pulled over on their way to buy cars or whatever with cash and having it seized, or people getting their house seized because their kid had a salable amount of pot in the basement. It's expensive and difficult for people to get their money back - cops use the funds to buy all that military grade equipment you don't think they should have. Granted, this will help drug dealers to some extent but the abuse of the statute is at absurd levels.

The problem I see here is they set a max when there should be a minimum in terms, esp when it comes to cash and there should be standard of proof more strict than "suspicion."

 

[tinselwolverine]

Granted, this will help drug dealers to some extent but the abuse of the statute is at absurd levels.

?It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.? -Sir William Blackstone

 

[tigermud]

Spartanmack is correct all in all this is a good thing as some states were in fact abusing the shit out of this.

Decision a victory against states imposing excessive fines, seizure of property
9-0 agrees when was the last time we had a 9-0? nice!

 

[tinselwolverine]

Spartanmack is correct all in all this is a good thing as some states were in fact abusing the shit out of this.

Decision a victory against states imposing excessive fines, seizure of property
9-0 agrees when was the last time we had a 9-0? nice!

Whenever Due process rights are being violated in these instances, not only is it abusive in some states, it?s also abusive in all the states that do it.