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Another great reason to avoid Texas and the rest of the South. Too bad a few crooks in uniform can spoil it for everybody. This really needs a Federal Investigation.
Another great reason to avoid Texas and the rest of the South. Too bad a few crooks in uniform can spoil it for everybody. This really needs a Federal Investigation.
I believe YOUR state got a D+ while Texas got a D.
New Hampshire civil forfeiture laws do not adequately protect the rights of property owners. Prosecutors must prove only by a mere preponderance of the evidence that your property is related to a crime and thus subject to forfeiture. Once established, the burden rests on you to raise an innocent owner defense, effectively making you guilty until proven innocent. Law enforcement has a profit motive to pursue forfeitures because they directly keep 45 percent of the proceeds. Another 45 percent of the proceeds go to a state forfeiture fund, while the remaining 10 percent accrues to the state health and human services department. New Hampshire officials are supposed to track the amount of forfeiture activity, but they failed to respond to requests for information about the state forfeiture program.
O Texas....you really are the laughing stock of this Union.
Just when the rest of us are making great gains in civil rights and liberties...you are right there to send as bumbling back a few decades.
You are in MA I guess....
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Massachusetts has a terrible civil forfeiture regime. Under Massachusetts civil forfeiture law, law enforcement need only show probable cause that your property was related to a crime to forfeit it. You are then in effect guilty until proven innocent, as you must shoulder the burden of proving that the property was not forfeitable or that you did not know and should not have known about the conduct giving rise to the forfeiture. Further, law enforcement keeps 100 percent of all forfeited property. The receipts are split: half to the prosecutor’s office and half to the local or state police. Massachusetts is required to collect forfeiture data, but in response to requests, the state provided data only for 2000 to 2003.
You can change the small town Name to just about any small town in any State. This is what happens when you have a sherrif, that abuses his powers to the extreme, and this is so very wrong, i would like to think that even in these small towns, this old corrupt form of thinking, has been ceased. That holier then thou GOOD OLD BOY attitude, just needs to go.
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