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: Dispatches from the Culture Wars

Another Outrageous Cash Seizure Case

By Ed Brayton

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Here's another blatantly unconstitutional asset forfeiture case, this time from Indiana. The police pull over two guys in a Jeep for speeding. And then:

In the Jeep's back seat, police found more than $26,000 in cash wrapped in a stocking cap.

Though officers held the two men for a short time in squad cars, they were eventually released without charges, save for the driver receiving a citation for driving with a suspended license.

And the money? The police kept it.

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Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on March 27, 2009 (boomark / email).

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