I don’t believe for one second you’d leave anything behind! That roach should’ve gone into a bowl to be finished off instead of wasted.
It had a good trip, though, we tossed it out the window while crossing the Mackinac Bridge. I like to think a Steelhead snagged it and had the time of it’s life.
I hope this suit succeeds. This entire civil forfeiture racket is such an offense against the Constitution at all levels that it sickens me.
But I expect it to be killed off before it ever comes to trial.
Any President could end it at the Federal level with a two paragraph executive order but they refuse either actively or passively which amount to the same thing.
Various Canadian Provinces have civil forfeiture regimes. It seems to work well enough per the stories we get in the media. The police action and the civil actions are separate.
So would this fellow’s experience be repeated in BC or Ontario? Maybe, as it would be really 'effin weird to carry ~CAD 100K in cash in your car on an inter-provincial road trip unless you had lived through the 1930’s. Maybe not as it sounds like he had a defense to offer. He’d get his money back plus costs if he prevailed.
Any other observations or experiences out there? UK? France? Germany?
I had a friend who years ago got caught up in a large and semi public cocaine case. Yeah he was selling coke but at the time of his arrest he only had 50 K. His day in court IIRC his attorney went with how can “Legal Tender” be illegal? It cannot be considered contraband since it is created by the government. The Judge threw out the case. My friend never got the money back but he also did not go to prison.
So the NSP saying that it is illegal to carry large amounts of cash feels like the same kind of thing.
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