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Comment by slowburning

7 years ago

In some states it is illegal to defend against civil forfeiture practices using hidden compartments in your vehicle to store 100% legal property (e.g. cash, jewelry, confidential information)

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downandout  7 years ago

Interesting article about a guy who was sentenced to 24 years in federal prison for building hidden compartments for customers of his car stereo shop:

https://www.wired.com/2013/03/alfred-anaya/

  • avar  7 years ago

    From the article:

        > "calculated ignorance of illegal
    > activity is not an acceptable excuse"

    I.e. the court's argument is that he was perfectly aware that he was building these for drug cartels. If we take that judgement at face value I don't see the problem with this. You don't get to wink wink nudge nudge your way out of being a knowing accomplice to a crime.

    • sbarre  7 years ago

      By that logic, shouldn't gun companies be prosecuted for the crimes committed by the drug cartels who use their weapons?

      Given the current state of affairs in the US and the publicly available statistics on gun crime, one could argue that continuing to manufacture guns is knowingly supplying criminals, no?

      It's a slippery slope..

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  • bnolsen  7 years ago

    as opposed to people actually using those compartments in an illegal fashion. Out of control government...

VectorLock  7 years ago

Which states?