We are living in a time when the due process protections of the Fourth Amendment are more important than ever.
Back in 2012, couple Adam and Jennifer Perry were speeding down an Illinois highway to reach a hearing specialist based in Salt Lake City, Utah who was supposed to treat an ear infection afflicting Adam. Their high speed drew the attention of state troopers, who pulled the couple over.
After a drug dog sniffed the Perry’s car, police searched their vehicle. They turned up empty-handed, with the only thing vaguely resembling the drugs they were looking for being a duffel bag that officers claimed smelled of marijuana.
But they found something else: $107,520 in cash, belonging to the Perrys’.
The officers let them go, but they kept the cash, even though the Perrys’ weren’t charged with a crime or even subject to a search warrant.
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Just like Mexico!
It’s legal for cop to do everything, if not its your word against his. Never travel with anything valuable, they can take it.
stazi ? $#%&!@* spetnats? good ole boy6?
There no telling how much goes in there pockets …$$$
What! Unbelievable!
Mike Strang Not true. That is not an excuses, Georgia was running that scale scam. They picked and chose. Not all trucks would they say was off to make it look good. When they got me I had my cat scale ticket with me. The first said I was off to move my axle forward by six holes to take the wight off are could not leave.I did got to the next scale they tried to ticket me for being over wight. I called my company had them on the phone when I showed the 2nd scale house my cat ticket and told them what the first had me do. About two mouths latter the scale had been shut down. That just goes to show you never know how many they lied about before getting found out.
Illinois is that hard up for money . That’s sad .
I have never understood how anyone, anywhere, for any reason supports civil asset forfeiture. It’s the worst sort of tyrannical evil.
the fourth amendment has been allowed to be taken from us long ago, picking up speed with the passage of the RICO act. but hey, we’re all “safer” because of it, right? Yeah…. “safer”….
I believe the way they play this game is they make the person or persons show where the money came from. If you can show it was from legit sources then they have to give the money back