Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 06:08 PM 12/14/2000 -0800, Guy Bennett wrote: >at the risk of sounding hopelessly naive, i had no idea that the police >could *legally* confiscate your film and destroy your wife's notes. Simply put, they cannot do so legally. The police can prevent you from keeping property while incarcerated, so they could have taken the camera, film, and notes, but they would have to return them upon release. This is not rocket science, guys. A summary petition to a court of competent jurisdiction will yield an order to that effect. In some jurisdictions (Federal, and a few states) you can get your attorney's fees back, as well. If this had happened to me, I would have been speaking cheerfully to my local Federal District Court Clerk the day after my release, while I filed the Section 1983 action ... Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!