I’m not backing drug dealers (so don’t go down that road) but it seems the government can go on thin circumstantial evidence to hammer someone when they want to, can’t they?
We have Comey standing in front of the world saying that they can’t prove Hillary had intent to break the law, but the justice system can say with certainty that a lottery ticket was bought with drug money?
There really are two systems, and it’s not black versus white (because Loretta Lynch and Obama and Bill Clinton are all black.) It’s elite versus peasant.
ABC- An Illinois woman will lose out on the proceeds from a $50,000 lottery ticket after a state appeals court ruled the government should keep the money because the ticket was purchased with drug money.
The Fourth District Appeals Court ruling overturns a Macon County judge who previously awarded the winnings to Tykisha Lofton, the Herald and Review reported.
Police found the lottery ticket while raiding a Decatur home where Lofton lived with her boyfriend, Terrance Norwood. Norwood told authorities that he had already turned the ticket in to claim the prize, worth more than $35,000 when paid as a lump sum.
Norwood told police the ticket was his way out of having to sell drugs. He was sentenced in October 2015 for drug dealing, drug possession and armed violence offenses.
Lofton was present during the raid but had told police she wasn’t aware Norwood sold drugs.
Police say Lofton didn’t dispute that Norwood had purchased the ticket, although she scratched it off. Court documents say Lofton later told authorities she had bought the ticket with money she received from babysitting.
Lofton said her purchase yielded a free ticket and that it was the prize winner. She produced a lottery winner claim form that included her name and details.
The Macon County judge had said he didn’t believe her story and ruled that the ticket was most likely bought with drug money. However, he ruled in Lofton’s favor, saying that extending Illinois forfeiture laws to grab the proceeds was going too far.
The appeals court judges overturned that ruling.
“Because of the direct link between the lottery winnings and the funds used to purchase the original ticket, the winnings can reasonably be considered ‘proceeds traceable’ to Norwood’s illegal drug sales,” they wrote.
ht/ col. angus
Never serving on a jury again.
I’m sure that I’m not the only one commenting on this site that feels screwed by Comey and his Fumbling Bunch of Idjits. I have long believed that it’s not what you know, it’s who you know in the legal system that counts. I was fooled by Comey. I honestly believed that he would set aside every political consideration and do the right thing. One of these years, Comey’s failure to recommend an indictment of this woman will be considered a watershed in the decline and fall of this formerly great country.
I look at jury duty from a different angle. It is my turn to look at the law and do what I know is right. I have sat and had to listen to “do gooders” go on and on as we are sequestered in a room about how some moron could be innocent when the truth is right in front of them. I’ll take as much jury duty as I can get so justice can prevail. Plus the look on some putz lawyer that thinks he got his defendant off on a minor technicality don’t mean shit when I’m on jury. I look at all the evidence and am more than happy to do my civic duty.
I like seeing bad people get put away and will do what I can to keep them off the street
addendum;
Not only would I like to be on the jury for Hillary’s trial but I’ll volunteer for the firing squad as well.
Comey couldn’t let her go to trial cause she is so damn guilty they would have a hard time finding a jury that would not find her guilty.
Maggots and worms are feeding on the rotting head of this corruptocracy.
Now I wish the FBI didn’t know where my birthmark is located. Had to tell them back in the day when I was visited by them because of a death threat I received as a public servant. 🙂
By the same logic if you win the lottery at anytime you owe the government any sum of money the same scenario would hold true. You might not have had that extra dollar to spend on the lotto if you had paid the government responsibly on time.
With a name like Tykisha, you know damn well she never earned a legal dollar in her life.
I say tuff toenails..stinken hoodrat muches of my tax dime and now wins lotto?…too much. You may think I’m drawing conclusions from this story, and I am, but I’ll bet my house my hunch is on the money.
oops “mooches”
all of these comments would make sense in a world based in objective reality….we don’t live there……
we live in a world where the government ASSUMES anyone holding a significant amount of cash is A DRUG DEALER…..so they are allowed to confiscate all that cash, and any profit therefrom….
oh, but the DRUG SNIFFING DOGS ……..
yeah, well, for all my adult life, it has been common knowledge that psper money is full of drugs, from people rolling it up into straws for snorting it, so even the most vehement Women’s Temperance Union member will have drug-soaked cash in her wallet…..
they can take your house, your vehicles, your land, your bank account, your clothing and the shoes off your feet, if they want to….and they NEVER HAVE TO CHARGE YOU WITH ANY CRIME OF ANY SORT…..it’s up to YOU to prove your innocence…..
not MY country anymore……i want MY country BACK, and i’m going to be wearing a RED SHIRT and voting for the Donald next month…..if you are voting Trump, PLEASE wear a red shirt – enough red shirts in the news videos, and we can make a good case against all those ballots found in car trunks and bedroom closets…
we now actually DO have that government that is powerful enough to give you everything you need……the same one that is powerful enough to take everything you have…..
someone in the way wayback warned us about that, i think…we got here by ignoring him……maybe we should start listening to all those “OLD DEAD WHITE MEN” again……..
You might commit a crime with the cash you have so we are destroying your life and impounding all of your possessions, that sounds constitutional to me /sarc.
How much does a lottery ticket cost? A dollar, two dollars? Would they confiscate a dollar, or even a ten dollar bill, if they busted somebody with drugs? No, that money would to jail with the criminal. It’s not enough to mess with. It’s only when it’s a significant amount that they can’t keep their greedy hands off of it. And the taxpayers will never see a dime of any confiscated money.
^^ would go to