And how many people can AFFORD to stick to it the way you have…
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True. It’s not just the monetary expense of chasing down bogus accusations, it’s the time involved as well. Many people can’t afford to take the time off to sit around in court and wait for a judge to grant continuance after continuance until they have to throw the case out, in the case of an illegal seizure. Time in court means time you aren’t working and earning money to replace what was taken.
When we bought our house (first world problem!), my parents loaned us some of the money for a down payment. For a brief while we had a large amount of money in our accounts that might have looked suspicious to an evil-minded investigator. Having that seized, or even tied up, would have cost us the ability to buy the house, and chasing the case through the courts would have taken months we couldn’t afford.
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Yeah, you’re lucky (well, not that lucky, as you still had to go through this BS) that you had the time to be able to work through the legal system - and you STILL didn’t get your entire amount back, because of court costs, etc.
Yeah, I can imagine.
Our whole legal system is really weighted against those who can’t afford to fight for their rights. It’s shameful.
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It’s especially nasty in this case because half the fun of doing it as a ‘civil’ matter is that even the often-pitiful-in-practice protections enjoyed by the criminally accused are absent. No presumption of innocence, no due-process right to a lawyer, just the fun of being a civil litigant in a system that gets paid if you lose.
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