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Old 04-17-2014, 02:46 PM
 
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Bad decision from the SCOTUS. Can you imagine the federal government seizing the money you used to pay bail and your qualified attorney? On the bright side the rich might just get treated like the poor, so it could end up changing the system.
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Old 04-17-2014, 03:20 PM
 
Location: San Antonio
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Bad decision from the SCOTUS. Can you imagine the federal government seizing the money you used to pay bail and your qualified attorney? On the bright side the rich might just get treated like the poor, so it could end up changing the system.
I doubt it, the rich will always have better lawyers and influential friends.
And I doubt we will ever see this effect any large corporations. The current SCOTUS seems to love corporate greed, corruption, and influence.
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Old 04-17-2014, 08:19 PM
 
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If only we had someone...like say a congress and a senate...that would represent us, and could reign in these sorts of things....
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Old 04-17-2014, 08:21 PM
 
Location: The Republic of Texas
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Bad decision from the SCOTUS. Can you imagine the federal government seizing the money you used to pay bail and your qualified attorney? On the bright side the rich might just get treated like the poor, so it could end up changing the system.

Isn't it illegal to employee illegal aliens?
I say they get right on that confiscation of assets.
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Old 04-17-2014, 08:23 PM
 
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Isn't it illegal to employee illegal aliens?
I say they get right on that confiscation of assets.
Intersecting parallels can cause flash floods.
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Old 04-17-2014, 08:29 PM
 
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Remember, this is the same court that said government can use eminent domain to take people's homes to hand over to private developers. The homes in that case were destroyed and the land is still vacant because the developer did nothing.
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Old 04-17-2014, 08:40 PM
 
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I read a little on a legal site which leads me to the question.......are we saying that if someone is accused of robbing a bank of $500,000, the prosecution gets an indictment that the defendants should be able to use the $500,000 in their safe to pay their lawyer?
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Old 04-17-2014, 08:47 PM
 
Location: Las Vegas,Nevada
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Old 04-17-2014, 09:47 PM
 
Location: North of Canada, but not the Arctic
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Official info: Kaley v. United States : SCOTUSblog

Audio of oral arguments: Kaley v. United States | The Oyez Project at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law (I listened to the whole thing. Pretty interesting, really.)

This was a tricky case (the decision was not along "party lines") because it appears the defendants didn't do anything obviously illegal, which makes the governments position seem unfair. However, if the court would have decided opposite of how they did, it would have greatly benefited the real scumbags in future cases who acquire large sums of money illegally and then use it all for lawyer fees instead of compensating victims. I think the Court made the proper decision.
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Old 04-17-2014, 09:52 PM
 
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I read a little on a legal site which leads me to the question.......are we saying that if someone is accused of robbing a bank of $500,000, the prosecution gets an indictment that the defendants should be able to use the $500,000 in their safe to pay their lawyer?
That is what the defendants were arguing. However, they really weren't arguing for bank robbers, but rather this couple who's activities were of dubious illegality. The defendants seem to be arguing that an exception should be made for this case (and that seems to be what the disenting Justices were arguing as well). But the likely result would have been that bank robbers would be enabled to use the money in their safe to pay for lawyers.
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