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Re:SCOTUS Rejects Guilty Until Proven Innocent – Can't Keep ... by kybernetikos on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @03:02PM (#14258976)
It's not so much that they are financially valid, it's whether you consider the money to have been taken by the state, and that it should compensate you for the money it took, or if your money is being held by the state, and it should return it.

If you consider that it should compensate you for the money it took off you, then Colorado has a law on the books governing the compensation process, which Thomas (and the previous court - the Colorado Supreme Court) thinks you should follow.

The majority opinion seems to be that not quickly returning (and it considered it as returning rather than compensating) the innocent parties property offends their right to due process.

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Re:SCOTUS Rejects Guilty Until Proven Innocent – Can't Keep ... by benchaney on Thursday May 04, 2017 @02:58AM (#14263049)
The entire premise of appellate courts (and by extension the Supreme Court) is that if the government does something wrong it should be reversed. Ignoring this fundamental truth seems completely insane.
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