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<blockquote data-quote="mugsy" data-source="post: 2771221" data-attributes="member: 18914"><p>Hobbes from your post: "Law enforcement officials say forfeiture without conviction is necessary to stop drug money from moving through the state."</p><p></p><p>I am against drug legalization or decriminalization but this statement proves a powerful reform is needed. How any American law enforcement official can say that it is a legitimate tactic to seize property and keep it without conviction, effectively, merely on suspicion boggles my mind.</p><p></p><p>I can understand frustration by police and prosecutors and I can agree with freezing assets pending a trial but an acquittal is an acquittal and if we do not respect due process even for the dirt-bags then it exists for no one. The truth is that due process is damn near the most important things that the American form of government has embodied for over two centuries.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mugsy, post: 2771221, member: 18914"] Hobbes from your post: "Law enforcement officials say forfeiture without conviction is necessary to stop drug money from moving through the state." I am against drug legalization or decriminalization but this statement proves a powerful reform is needed. How any American law enforcement official can say that it is a legitimate tactic to seize property and keep it without conviction, effectively, merely on suspicion boggles my mind. I can understand frustration by police and prosecutors and I can agree with freezing assets pending a trial but an acquittal is an acquittal and if we do not respect due process even for the dirt-bags then it exists for no one. The truth is that due process is damn near the most important things that the American form of government has embodied for over two centuries. [/QUOTE]
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