| Driving With Money is a Crime |
[Aug. 21st, 2006|03:51 pm] |
http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/12/1296.asp
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Bigsby and Brownell also inquired whether any alcohol, guns, marijuana, methamphetamine, heroin, or large amounts
of cash were in the car, and Gonzolez answered NO.
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Here, the only evidence linking the seized money to illegal drug activity is a
canine sniff that alerted officers to the presence of narcotics on the currency itself and
the exterior of the rear passenger side of the rental car where the currency was
discovered. However, as Justice Souter recently recognized, a large percentage of
currency presently in circulation contains trace amounts of narcotics. As a result, this fact
is virtually “meaningless and likely quite prejudicial.” United States v. Carr, 25 F.3d
1194, 1216 (3d Cir. 1994) (Becker, J., concurring). |
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