Letter: Walters’ money stolen by state
Thursday, March 1, 2001 | 9:15 a.m.
Re Billy Walters forfeiture:
Nevada's Gestapo seizes a citizen's $2.8 million without a conviction? The authorities who benefit from this stolen loot must now show to themselves that there is a preponderance of evidence?
Our state saviors are now going to attempt to right these unconstitutional forfeiture wrongs by passing a law where there has to be "clear and convincing evidence" of wrongdoing? Determined by who, those who benefit?
Grand juries obviously have no say, since they threw the case out three times and the money has not been returned, am I correct? Is this the United States of America, where a citizen has to be proven guilty of a crime to be punished?
Oh, sorry! Silly me, I forgot the courts have ruled that it is the property that suffers and property has no rights. Just think jury nullification!
PAUL A. GENSHEIMER
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