Hands up: this is a civil asset forfeiture

by Walter Olson on May 21, 2012

I’ve got a new Cato at Liberty post pulling together three outrageous forfeiture stories that have been in the news the past few days. Many more cases at our forfeiture tag.

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1 Robert Hewes 05.21.12 at 5:17 pm

I’m surprised they’re not paying individual cops a commission yet.

2 L Nettles 05.22.12 at 9:46 am

A datapoint

“MADISON, Wis. (AP) — One of the men convicted in the deadly 1970 bombing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison was arrested last week after authorities found $800,000 cash in the motor home he was driving.

A court document says 65-year-old Karl Armstrong was arrested in Chicago. The Wisconsin State Journal (http://bit.ly/K5rOKA) reports Armstrong’s arrest Thursday led to a search on Saturday by the Wisconsin Division of Criminal Investigation of a Town of Madison trailer home where Armstrong lives for evidence of marijuana trafficking.”

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/sns-ap-wi–universitybombing-arrest,0,7851065.story

3 doug 05.22.12 at 9:57 am

how is that a datapoint?

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