Oklahoma Police Uses New Device To Seize Money from cards

[Stonepounder]

21. And it gets even better.

If you are subject to 'civil asset firfeiture', YOU have to go to court to try and prove that you AREN'T involved in a crime. In other words, you have to prove a negative. And, of course, they will try and tie you up in court forever until either your lawyer gets all your money or you give up and settle with them for pennies on the dollar. And you have no recourse.

I don't understand why someone like the ACLU hasn't managed to get this before the SCOTUS as a clear and obvious violation of the Fifth Amentment - no person shall be deprived ... of property ... without due process of law.

No way is a state trooper, by himself, according you due process when he take your money and tells you you need to prove yourself innocent to get it back. Whatever happened to 'innocent until proven guilty'?