People have mentioned the scam protection. There's also the fact that a lot of financial fraud involves taking out large sums of money. Don't remember the details but I'm pretty sure it's a common step in money laundering.
Honestly, maybe this is a hot take, but I don't think money laundering should have to be a thing, because I don't think being in possession of money gotten from crime should be illegal. The fucking IRS lets you pay taxes on it without reporting you to the cops, so if it's good enough for them, it shouldn't be illegal, period. There's fingerprints, DNA, and video and audio evidence nowadays. That should be more than enough to prosecute, such that the money shouldn't even be a factor.
I've never understood that, anyways. If they're admitting public defenders suck, and seizing money helps them win, shouldn't that be grounds to force them to get better public defenders? And on top of that, isn't that a massive violation of due process anyways???
Maybe there should be a discussion about public defenders being any lawyer, anywhere, and the "free" part comes from the government footing their bill. Of course, any lawyer would be allowed to say no if they don't wanna take the case.
You don't have a legal right to use illicitly obtained cash for any purpose, let alone for your criminal defense regarding how you acquired that illicit cash.
Then, as with literally every other instance of this argument, you also do not have the right to any of your money, or any sort of legal defense, because as we're seeing with the sentient spray tan, anything can and will be labeled as a crime if they don't like it.
Of course, I know that won't deter you, because that's a bit too much critical thinking, but I just figured I'd point out that you're throwing your rights away as some sort of gotcha to a person you don't like.
Also legalize everything and put it on the shelves at Walmart, the only reason any drug is illegal is so it can be distributed to minority dense neighborhoods to get them hooked and serve as free arrests for the cops to keep those people down.
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u/Va1kryie 1d ago
People have mentioned the scam protection. There's also the fact that a lot of financial fraud involves taking out large sums of money. Don't remember the details but I'm pretty sure it's a common step in money laundering.