If it’s Bud Light, I understand.
Wait. Was it in his luggage or was it in plain view. Perhaps Pastel can straighten this out.
When did prohibition return? No one told me.
Sounds like a violation of the 8th amendment:
“Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.”
Excessive fines—like what Letitia James did to Trump.
PLUNDERING…. a favorite tactic of OTHER-PEOPLE’S-MONEY governments.
PLUNDERING…. a favorite tactic of OTHER-PEOPLE’S-MONEY governments.
Someone related to an individual in the court wants that airplane.
This punishment does not fit that crime.
It is stratospherically out of proportion, and they know it!
I don’t understand why it remains unfulfilled, unresolved to this day, unless he’s been filing chain linked appeals.
That method of defense would be very expensive.
Imagine, making it to the grand old age of 82, basic faculties still working, and this problem remains a constant dread. That’s worse than being 82 y/o, and still being chased/ nagged/ harrassed by the IRS for your unpaid Student Loan
Wait. This happened in 2012?????
Our wonderful government in action to protect citizens.
I’ve heard of the wheels of justice grinding slowly, but damn.
They should be careful making an old man with nothing to lose a criminal, as he might want to get even before he dies.
Whoever made the decision to seize the plane should lose their job and pension.
State Troopers did this, ugh
Civil forfeiture attacks on Americans has become an epidemic.
There is no thief like a government thief.
There is no thief like a government thief.
“Now 85 and retired, Jouppi was a longtime air taxi pilot in Fairbanks when he planned to ferry a passenger and her groceries from that hub city to Beaver, a village in the Interior.
Before takeoff, an Alaska State Trooper noticed a six-pack of beer visible in the baggage. Beaver had outlawed the sale, consumption and importation of alcohol in 2004. Troopers searched the plane and found three cases of beer — two Budweiser, one Bud Light — intended for the passenger’s husband, the local postmaster.
Jouppi was indicted on bootlegging charges, convicted, and sentenced. His sentence included three days in jail and a fine. State prosecutors asked that he be required to forfeit his plane, but the trial judge declined.
The state appealed that decision, and the Alaska Court of Appeals ruled in 2017 in the state’s favor. The Appeals judges sent the case back to the trial court, which again refused to order the plane’s forfeiture, citing the U.S. Constitution’s excessive fines clause.
The state again appealed, and in 2022, a full decade after the original crime, the Court of Appeals partially ruled in the state’s favor. “
“A six-pack”
Three cases in passenger’s luggage.
“A six-pack”
Three cases in passenger’s luggage.
Otoh:
There are serious alcohol problems in some native communities in Alaska. As in, the whole community is drunk, and the children are running around without supervision.There may be very serious reasons not to introduce even a six pack of beer into some places.