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[IP] If you go around with large amounts of cash, police can take it without evidence of crime





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From: vijay gill <vgill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: August 21, 2006 9:19:08 AM EDT
To: David Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: If you go around with large amounts of cash, police can take it without evidence of crime

Dr. Farber, for IP if you wish

http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/12/1296.asp

Federal Appeals Court: Driving With Money is a Crime
Eighth Circuit Appeals Court ruling says police may seize cash from motorists even in the absence of any evidence that a crime has been committed.

US Court of Appeals, Eighth CircuitA federal appeals court ruled yesterday that if a motorist is carrying large sums of money, it is automatically subject to confiscation. In the case entitled, "United States of America v. $124,700 in U.S. Currency," the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit took that amount of cash away from Emiliano Gomez Gonzolez, a man with a "lack of significant criminal history" neither accused nor convicted of any crime.

/vijay



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