Bartman
Senior Member
I don't want to belabor this, but regardless of how she justifies it, she is using her authority as "probation officer for the county" (how that's not characterized as "law enforcement" is beyond me) to seize personal property from someone without paying for it. Why evidence only has to be kept "a short time" is a mystery to me - if it isn't going to be used as part of a trial/hearing as proof of the probation/parole violation (which might take weeks or months to complete), why keep it as 'evidence' at all?
No matter what the guy on probation did (even if he killed someone driving drunk), if someone gave me wine I knew had been confiscated from him by a government agent (who has the force of law behind her), it would taste rather bitter in my mouth.
No matter what the guy on probation did (even if he killed someone driving drunk), if someone gave me wine I knew had been confiscated from him by a government agent (who has the force of law behind her), it would taste rather bitter in my mouth.