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| Subject: Police can just take your stuff. And then when you sue them, they can sell your stuff to pay for their defense. It's not larceny: it's Texas Fri Oct 02, 2009 8:03 pm | |
| DA Accused of Stealing Money From Motorists Wants To Defend Herself With Money She's Accused of Stealing From Motorists
The little town of Tenaha, Texas has been all over the news in the last year after several defense attorneys revealed the town's police had been pulling over motorists along a main highway, seizing their property (cars, cash, jewelry, etc.), then presenting them with an unsavory bargain: Sign a waiver forfeiting all of their property over to the police, or be arrested for drug crimes where, even if innocent, they'd face a night or more in jail and attorney and court fees that would usually amount to more than what the property was worth.
More: http://reason.com/blog/2009/10/02/da-accused-of-stealing-money-f
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