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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Nonsense. All the feds did was tell the states that they no longer get a cut of the booty from their highway robbery. This may result in a de facto end to the practice, but it is not illegal…. yet.
DID you know that some sects of Amish and Mennonites don’t believe in banks, and are known to carry 25k – 50k on them as cash on hand? They state that they never know when a good deal on a tractor, or small farm might pop up. Cash shouldn’t be a crime.
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Why is that the business of anyone but the owner of the property? Just because most people don’t, doesn’t mean that no one should, n’est-ce pas?
Policeman..fireman…mailman
Policeman..fireman
.mailman…notice the common denominator “man”..
I would say that is theft by unlawful confiscation
They need to mind their own business……
I had ten thousand taken off me’ Cook county,…..detectives pulled into the lot behind me, and they got out of the Car’ I pulled a gun on them, and the guy told me hold hold, on…they were two of them….long story short they gave my money back…..I got lucky ….because the friend with me had a joint in his shirt pocket…..and although they took my gun……and kept it….i had no permit…….i spent four hours in Jail while the gun was ran into the system…..
Prove the money was illegal, fool. I have a lot of cash not in the bank too. So I’m a criminal? Maybe the cops should have just shot them instead. Probably would have made them way easier to rob.
Prove the money was earned legal, fool!