>Have the FBI worked
As if they will have time left after trafficking drugs and children…
7th floor no more.
Rob Johnson
@FreeRangeLawyer
Jan 4
Update about this case: Still no decision, but it has been a big month in other ways. And the government has gotten up to some interesting hijinks. I'll explain.
For starters, oral argument was fantastic. The judges called the government's conduct "egregious" and "outrageous." One of the judges even compared the FBI's search to the kinds of broad, general searches that sparked the Revolutionary War.
Rob Johnson
@FreeRangeLawyer
5 Dec 2023
Tomorrow, I'm flying to Los Angeles for oral argument in what may be the most important Fourth Amendment case pending in the United States today. The basic facts: The FBI broke open and searched hundreds of safe deposit boxes without any reason to think the boxholders did anything wrong.
U.S. Private Vaults, a business in Beverly Hills, offered a private and secure place where people could store their most valued, sensitive possessions. In March 2021, the FBI raided USPV, broke open every single box in the vault, and looked through all the contents. The FBI ran all cash in the vault by drug dogs, opened envelopes and photographed the contents, and ultimately sent everything worth over $5,000 to asset forfeiture—initiating proceedings to keep that property forever.
Jan 4, 2024 · 3:18 PM UTC
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