Now Blount will have to sue to get back the money. That's none of your business. None of mine, either. A person's money should be his own, to do with what he will. Authorities should be forced to prove that money is connected to a crime before taking it.
All money is now the government's, whenever it wants to come get it.
But many other innocent citizens, less able to afford the loss and the high- priced attorneys needed for a court fight, have suffered from the same seizure laws. Steve Stephens is a Dispatch Metro columnist. After all, our tax dollars pay for govt. If I, as an employee, denied my boss his constitutional rights and abused him in such a way, I'd be collecting unemployment faster than you could say hot horse manure. Hell, in cases like this it is a joke.