Cases of estoppel should not languish
In case of arrest, the police suspected a drug, a habit of using cash, cars and weapons in the process.
In theory, these funds illegally loot is necessary to ensure the cash umreiften police services - which allow them to buy protective equipment such as bulletproof vests, or for other Undercover operations of drug trafficking.
It is impossible to rely on a secure system for collecting dust or languish in a bank account. Such a result is not fair, they do not enjoy the prosecution, and he takes his time, the owner before the courts.
But that’s exactly what’s happening in Bristol Virginia and some other countries, South West Virginia. The cases are languishing - sometimes for years - as a result of the prosecution of the inability or apathy.
Rather than a good use or return to their legitimate owners, money and assets are in the right room, a thorough investigation by the Bristol Herald Courier Michael L. Owens. Owens took place some $ 902547 worth of medicines to the seizure of cases are plodding along South West Virginia, but still active. Another sum of $ 250000 decreased by tears.
Look at Bristol Virginia. The police department of the city has more than $ 22000 stashed in a safe in the bedroom of obtaining evidence. The cash, 17 cases pending expiry.
Commonwealth’s Attorney Jerry Wolfe reassured that the reports of police brass, that the cases were, in his “to-do list. We need the police department’s word for it because Wolfe repeatedly refused to talk to Owens revocation of the procedure.
Wolfe is not the only mother. Two former city prosecutors - one of them is now a judge - also rejected, for a case of disqualification, pending was by three different regimes of the prosecutor.
This case with “Money Mike” Ricco, a cocaine dealer extravagant serve 30 years in Federal Prison, an example for problems with the process foreiture practised in Bristol Virginia.
During the year 1993 was an assistant to the prosecutor began the task of writing the property police seized $ 532 Ricco. The case remains pending today, although it is far from the Court Docket. This money could again Ricco, but nobody seems quite sure what will happen next.
Furthermore, this is not justice. If the government, money and other assets of alleged drug, it must be procedural law. Will you if there are any acquisitions feed those who are against the confiscation of assets, as an excess of zeal of government.
We have no particular problem with the seizure of assets of drug traffickers, particularly those assets which appear to be directly related to their illegal activities. But itself suspected drug deserve their day in court.
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