
Cristal Starling’s home in Rochester, New York was raided in October 2020. Officers seized “all of the cash that they could find”. Then, she found out that she would have to pay and attorney half of what the DEA seized. She chose to fight herself in hopes of saving the money that she had been saving for food stand.
Cristal Starling, like so many other non-lawyers that get caught up in the United States’ broken legal system, never got her say in court even though she was never arrested or charged with any crime. Her money is still gone.
Rob Johnson, a senior attorney and Daryl James, a writer at the Institute for Justice in Arlington, Virginia report that “the Rochester Police raided Starling’s apartment in the middle of the night with a warrant because they suspected her then-boyfriend of dealing drugs. Starling was home at the time with her…
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“…civil forfeiture, a process that allows law enforcement agencies to take ownership of assets without establishing anything beyond a reasonable doubt”
With emphasis on “law enforcement agencies” becsuse if WE THE PEOPLE had the same right and ability… those same agencies would be bankrupt and defunct.
Just who the h*ll do they think they work for?
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