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Based GA Lawmaker Introduces Bill To Require Conviction for Asset Forfeiture
Posted on 12/12/17 at 10:18 am
Posted on 12/12/17 at 10:18 am
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After years of work and compromise, Georgia passed modest asset forfeiture reforms in 2015 that strengthened protections for property owners and required law enforcement to release standardized annual reports on their asset forfeiture activity.
Republican state representative Scot Turner believe those reforms didn't go far enough. Turner introduced a bill, H.B. 505, this summer that would require law enforcement in Georgia to obtain a criminal conviction for the state to keep seized assets.
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Posted on 12/12/17 at 10:52 am to SlowFlowPro
I want to upvote but that gif is about to give me a seizure.
Posted on 12/12/17 at 11:05 am to SlowFlowPro
This will get shot down with a quickness.
Too many palms are getting greased for the gravy train and literal highway robbery to end.
The drug war was never about stopping the drugs, but getting rich off of them.
Too many palms are getting greased for the gravy train and literal highway robbery to end.
The drug war was never about stopping the drugs, but getting rich off of them.
Posted on 12/12/17 at 11:08 am to Bard
Civil Asset forfeiture = Driving with too much cash on your person.
Posted on 12/12/17 at 11:12 am to NewbombII
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Civil Asset forfeiture = Driving with too much cash on your person.
Not necessarily, it could be owning too nice of a house, driving too nice of a car, lending your car out and the driver gets a DWI, depositing $10,001 in cash to a bank, or even having too nice of jewelry/smartphone/electronics on your person or in your car. Theres literally no limit.
One of the most aggregious examples...
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In the East Texas town of Tenaha, the district attorney oversaw a particularly Dickensian operation: Local cops would stop out-of-town drivers on the flimsiest of pretexts to look for cash, DVD players, cell phones, anything of value. The DA would threaten drivers with criminal charges, even promising to have state authorities remove kids from parents unless they waived rights to the property.
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Posted on 12/12/17 at 11:13 am to SlowFlowPro
quote:No brainer, no?...
require law enforcement in Georgia to obtain a criminal conviction for the state to keep seized assets
Posted on 12/12/17 at 11:17 am to Knight of Old
requiring a conviction is the simplest and most logical policy change
but it would make the job of the state harder, so those supporting the ruse of CAF will act like you support cartels for that suggestion
but it would make the job of the state harder, so those supporting the ruse of CAF will act like you support cartels for that suggestion
Posted on 12/12/17 at 11:19 am to NewbombII
quote:That is why I keep my money in the bank. Unless they can start stealing credit cards they can frick off
Civil Asset forfeiture = Driving with too much cash on your person.
Posted on 12/12/17 at 11:26 am to NYNolaguy1
Get pulled over in many states get your car searched... If you have more than 10,000$ cash you lose it even if you have not broken any law.
Posted on 12/12/17 at 11:31 am to SlowFlowPro
The Sheriff and DA lobby will never allow LA to touch this cash cow.
Posted on 12/12/17 at 11:35 am to SlowFlowPro
This is progress, but why would the state be entitled to your property? Is this only for property gained via illegal activity?
Posted on 12/12/17 at 12:14 pm to MontyFranklyn
"That is why I keep my money in the bank. Unless they can start stealing credit cards they can frick off"
So the government has decided how much cash you can carry on your person? More than that you have willingly ceeded this right to the government?
So the government has decided how much cash you can carry on your person? More than that you have willingly ceeded this right to the government?
Posted on 12/12/17 at 12:15 pm to SlowFlowPro
Sad day in America when Republicans are no longer backing the blue!
Posted on 12/12/17 at 1:48 pm to upgrayedd
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Is this only for property gained via illegal activity?
In theory yes but it essentially creates a legal burden on the accused to prove his Escalade WAS NOT in any way (it can be one ill gotten dollar) financed by illegal money, so the local govt keeps all the property.
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