Arizona's Newly Enacted Forfeiture Reforms Will Make It Harder for Cops To Steal Property
The new law requires a criminal conviction prior to civil forfeiture and beefs up due process protections for property owners.
The new law requires a criminal conviction prior to civil forfeiture and beefs up due process protections for property owners.
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When officers searched Jermaine Sanders' car, they found less than half an ounce of marijuana and seized $17,000 of his money.
The boy was sentenced to 25 years' imprisonment.
Tarahrick Terry was sentenced to more than 15 years in prison after he was caught with less than four grams.
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Up for debate was whether or not it was "clearly established" that officers cannot apply injurious force to a subject who isn't resisting.
The president still has not caught up with most Americans on marijuana policy.
Portland police are calling it "human trafficking," but it was just an old-fashioned vice bust.
The opposition to Southlake's plan was understandable.
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Police arrested and charged Joshua Garton with harassment for posting a photoshopped picture of two men urinating on a police officer's grave.
Reforms like the ones recently passed in Maryland and New Mexico offer a better long-term fix than the conviction of one police officer.
Even government officials can occasionally admit the need for limits to their thievery.
Charge them for their crimes, not their thoughts.
If the governor signs the bill into law, Arizona will become the 16th state to require a conviction for asset forfeiture.
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The doctrine shields state actors from accountability.
Section 702 is supposed to be used to snoop on spies and terrorists, not Americans.
If public health scolds get their way, they will worsen the nation’s overcriminalization problem.
Press Secretary Jen Psaki repeatedly tried to muddy the issue by changing the subject to reclassifying marijuana.
Do "Black and white people routinely commit crimes at similar rates," if we focus on violent crime? Is "Black-on-Black crime ... a myth"?
A Virginia lawyer successfully defended her stepson in court. Three days later, police raided her house using a flimsy search warrant.
Imagine a world in which media outlets were unable or afraid to post video of police and other authorities acting reprehensibly.
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Did the city's "policies, customs or practices," invite Fourth Amendment violations?
Most victims of police misconduct never get to take their cases to court.