Adding Insult to Civil Asset Forfeiture Abuse

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🗓️ 3 August 2015

⏱️ 13 minutes

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The seizure of Rhonda Cox's truck at the hands of Arizona cops was just the beginning of her education in civil asset forfeiture. Attorney J Cabou discusses her case.

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0:00.0	This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Monday, August 3rd, 2015.
0:05.0	I'm Caleb Brown.
0:06.0	When Arizona cops seized a truck belonging to Rhonda Cox without charging her with any crime,
0:11.0	she began to fight back.
0:12.0	That's until prosecutors told her that if she... her with any crime, she began to fight back.
0:12.8	That's until prosecutors told her that if she persisted in asserting her rights and then
0:16.7	lost at court, they would ask the judge to force her to pay the government's attorney's fees.
0:21.7	Jacobu is an attorney in Arizona.
0:23.9	He and the ACLU are suing the state
0:26.3	over its broad civil asset forfeiture powers.
0:29.5	Who is Rhonda Cox?
0:30.6	Rhonda Cox is a mother and grandmother who lives in Penel County, Arizona and who works as a sales
0:38.7	administrator at a local business.
0:40.7	So what happened to her?
0:42.2	Ronda Cox had a young adult son, Chris, who had borrowed a truck that was Rhonda's truck
0:50.9	one night without her knowing about it.
0:53.8	Rhonda regularly let him borrow the truck, but this particular night she didn't know that he
0:57.0	had taken it.
0:58.8	He went out and with some friends got into some kind of low-level trouble which involved eventually putting onto the truck a
1:05.8	hood that was from another truck that wasn't his.
1:10.1	The police got a report about that.
1:11.7	They eventually stopped the truck or found the truck later that day.
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