Arkansas allowed to take $20,000 from innocent man on a technicality

Arkansas Times ^ | Wed, May 11, 2016 at 3:44 PM | Max Brantley

[kingu]

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He was never charged with a crime and the state even dropped its effort to seize the money. But a trial judge wouldn't go along. And the Arkansas Court of Appeals last week refused the appeal to return the cash.

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But the appellate court instead ruled that civil forfeiture cases must follow the state’s civil procedure rules, which only allow 10 days after judgment to file motions “to vacate, alter, or amend the judgment.” In short, he was too late in filing. Since Espinoza’s motion was “untimely,” the Court of Appeals dismissed his appeal.

[kingu]

Ahh yes, we do not wish to give you back your money...

[gaijin]

Your money is innocent of wrongdoing, but we KEEP IT, nonetheless.

BECAUSE.

[Mark17]

Ahh yes, we do not wish to give you back your money...

I won't say what I really think. It's a family forum.

[Theodore R.]

The state House should impeach this judge.

[PCPOET7]

he should request that the state voluntary give back the money and if they don’t this is a real good case to go to the supreme court.

[DariusBane]

Is a Federal appeal possible? Unconstitutional taking?

[RegulatorCountry]

Putting a ten day limit on filing to get back property that was illegally taken? How clever.

[Mark was here]

I guess Mr. Policeman was not his friend.

[Mat_Helm]

These idiots keep this up and they are going to motivate legitimately real Robin Hood’s to stop this crap. Would not want to be law enforcement when innocent people start shooting at law enforcement to protect their money from theft.

[DuncanWaring]

Officer Friendly is actually Officer Fiendly.

[thoughtomator]

It’s all good because DRUGS ARE EVIL

[Mark17]

Yep. It might them think twice, before going out and stealing people’s property.

[Blood of Tyrants]

The SC has ruled lyears ago the “civil forfeiture” is constitutional.

[Blood of Tyrants]

The SC ruled years ago that “civil forfeiture” is constitutional.

[Lurker]

That judge has an address. Just saying.

L

[Darteaus94025]

Law enforcement seized more property from citizens than was stolen by burglars.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/23/cops-took-more-stuff-from-people-than-burglars-did-last-year/

[Darteaus94025]

“Nothing to see here; move along.”

[bkopto]

That’s what I was just thinking. This crap won’t stop unless there is some personal responsibility/accountability here.

[beef]

I would like to see Trump pledge to do something about this and other abuses in our justice system. It is reprehensible.

[Mr. Jeeves]

There are no innocent men. Every one of you is guilty of something - we just have to run your FBI file through our RoboProsecutor program to figure out the best state or Federal regulation to charge you under. :)