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Re:What life is like after police ransack your house, then t... by ascagnel_ on Thursday March 31, 2016 @04:09PM (#11400229)
The issue is that if cash or other valuable items are seized, they can be used to fund a legal defense. This is, at times, undesirable: if someone robs a bank, that money shouldn't be used in criminal defense because it's the property of someone else (either the bank or it's customers).

CF in general is a troublesome idea; a better system would be the court overseeing and holding in escrow any funds or items that are seized by the police and disbursing it as necessary once the trial is over or a plea is reached.

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Re:What life is like after police ransack your house, then t... by protomyth on Thursday March 31, 2016 @06:18PM (#11401027)
> if someone robs a bank, that money shouldn't be used in criminal defense because it's the property of someone else (either the bank or it's customers).

That is provably not the person arrested money, just as a car thief shouldn't keep the car. Drug money is tougher, and the government should have to prove it came from criminal activity. Allowing the government to seize money just because it could have been from illegal activity is bull.

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