<story><title>Appeals Court: FBI&apos;s Safe-Deposit Box Seizures Violated Fourth Amendment</title><url>https://reason.com/2024/01/23/appeals-court-fbis-safe-deposit-box-seizures-violated-fourth-amendment/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>EasyMark</author><text>I read the article. The article ruled they broke the terms of the warrant. How in the world do you think that the FBI wouldn&amp;#x27;t bag and tag stuff if they planned on using it in court at a later date? Any fresh out of school lawyer could get that tossed in a heart beat. The people will get back their stuff after the appeals. How could they do that without the fbi tracking what was in the SDBs?</text></item><item><author>bagels</author><text>Is this a joke? Did you read about this case? Because that is basically what happened. Some people got parts of their things back.</text></item><item><author>EasyMark</author><text>I highly doubt the fba didn&amp;#x27;t tag and bag the contents by box #. they didn&amp;#x27;t just throw them into a big pile in the middle of the floor</text></item><item><author>theogravity</author><text>What are the chances the seized items are returned in its entirety to the owner?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>justanorherhack</author><text>No they won’t this is a highly public case because of their mishandling of all of it.
They are claiming they can’t give people back their things and much of it was “lost”. Another addition to the long list of civil forfeiture cases in which us law enforcement legally steals people’s assets without consequences. They are incentivized to do so as local and federal agencies get kickbacks from what they seize. They’ve taken tens of thousands of dollars from taxpayers with little to no cause. Look up civil forfeiture.</text></comment>
<story><title>Appeals Court: FBI&apos;s Safe-Deposit Box Seizures Violated Fourth Amendment</title><url>https://reason.com/2024/01/23/appeals-court-fbis-safe-deposit-box-seizures-violated-fourth-amendment/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>EasyMark</author><text>I read the article. The article ruled they broke the terms of the warrant. How in the world do you think that the FBI wouldn&amp;#x27;t bag and tag stuff if they planned on using it in court at a later date? Any fresh out of school lawyer could get that tossed in a heart beat. The people will get back their stuff after the appeals. How could they do that without the fbi tracking what was in the SDBs?</text></item><item><author>bagels</author><text>Is this a joke? Did you read about this case? Because that is basically what happened. Some people got parts of their things back.</text></item><item><author>EasyMark</author><text>I highly doubt the fba didn&amp;#x27;t tag and bag the contents by box #. they didn&amp;#x27;t just throw them into a big pile in the middle of the floor</text></item><item><author>theogravity</author><text>What are the chances the seized items are returned in its entirety to the owner?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bagels</author><text>Apologies for being flippant, I thought you were trolling. The FBI has lost (or stolen) some of these people&amp;#x27;s items.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ij.org&amp;#x2F;press-release&amp;#x2F;innocent-security-deposit-box-renters-demand-fbi-return-missing-property&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ij.org&amp;#x2F;press-release&amp;#x2F;innocent-security-deposit-box-r...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>