Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/14

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Busted with my M2
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 22:12:32 -0500
References: <B65EB0AE.7E2%aruby@rci.rutgers.edu> <3.0.6.32.20001213222831.00f0d100@pop.roanoke.infi.net>

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
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