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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I wonder how veterans who served in Iraq feel about coming home and having to deal with state security forces that are no different from the bandits employed by Saddam to terrorize and rob the Iraqi masses. I wonder how veterans feel about being declared “security threats” by DHS and the DOJ.
Crooks.
Whoa……. A lot of things not right lately. It’s sad how corrupt and evil America has become in the last 20 years. The decline is well on its way, that’s why politicians blind us with non-issues about gun control and terrorism while politicians and the system rapes and plunders…… Factz….
It goes on all the time
Where’s my cut?
Fuckin pigs
It’s a b******t loophole. The “contraband” is what is technically under suspicion so they don’t actually violate due process laws, never mind the fact that $10k cant defend itself in court because it is not a person…
Say you have 10k and your friend is giving you a ride to the used car lot to buy a new-to-you car fully in cash. You get pulled over, they profile you and suspect you will be buying drugs.
The money they confiscate is suspected of being involved in crime, not the owner of the possession; they can take it without violating *your* rights. They can do this with houses, cars, guns, money, anything really.
What ever went on can be settled in open court.
so fucked up
Where’s the video?