{"id":180984,"date":"2016-11-05T20:34:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-06T01:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/11\/05\/now-i-want-to-live-in-montana\/"},"modified":"2016-11-05T20:34:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-06T01:34:00","slug":"now-i-want-to-live-in-montana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/11\/05\/now-i-want-to-live-in-montana\/","title":{"rendered":"Now I Want to Live in Montana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Montana Supreme Court has <a href=\"http:\/\/missoulian.com\/news\/state-and-regional\/high-court-rules-for-jury-trials-in-civil-forfeiture-cases\/article_fa77c462-7427-5167-8f35-34145db3bf77.html\">ruled that jury trials are required in all cases of civil asset forfeiture<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The Montana Supreme Court says citizens have a right to trial by jury before the state can take private property in civil forfeiture cases, a ruling that bolsters a law that state legislators passed last year to limit police seizures.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Tuesday&#8217;s unanimous ruling by the high court puts Montana in line with most other states that have upheld jury trials in civil forfeiture proceedings.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;After consideration of both American and English common law, federal jurisprudence and decisions from our sister states &#8230; we join the majority of states and federal courts and conclude that there is a right to trial by jury,&#8221; Justice Laurie McKinnon wrote in the opinion.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nice to see sanity in one of the big square states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Montana Supreme Court has ruled that jury trials are required in all cases of civil asset forfeiture: The Montana Supreme Court says citizens have a right to trial by jury before the state can take private property in civil forfeiture cases, a ruling that bolsters a law that state legislators passed last year to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[761,833,796],"class_list":["post-180984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-corruption","tag-justice","tag-law-enforcement-misconduct"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180984"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}