Just so she doesn't make a run for freedom we'll take her scooter

[freethefly 6]

Amputee Sues Over Confiscated Scooter

By The Associated Press
Source: Associated Press

Portland, Ore. -- Vicki Marie Tyler, a diabetic amputee with a medical marijuana card, says she was asleep on her couch when 13 police officers raided her North Portland home looking for drugs.
Though officers found less than an ounce of marijuana during the 2003 raid, they seized her electric scooter on the grounds in was bought with drug money. A jury last year acquitted Tyler of drug-dealing charges.

Now Tyler is trying to make it 2-for-2 in the courts, filing a federal lawsuit against the Portland Police Bureau because it kept her scooter for more than three months — until a Multnomah County judge ordered the bureau to give it back.

The police seized her scooter, among other pieces of property, even though the warrant did not list any property eligible for seizure, said David D. Park, Tyler’s attorney.

The police can seize property thought to be bought with drug profits, such as guns and expensive stereo equipment. But Park said the police had no reason to believe that Tyler, an arthritic diabetic with kidney failure who uses a prosthetic leg, used drug profits to buy a scooter that requires a prescription from a physician.

The suit seeks $15,000 for emotional pain and suffering. The suit also seeks punitive damages, claiming the police either maliciously sought to punish her or recklessly deprived her of her right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure.

The Portland city attorney’s office had not received a copy of the suit Wednesday. A Portland police spokesman declined to comment to The Oregonian.

The lawsuit names 13 Portland police officers, including former Officer Jason H. Sery, who shot and killed an unarmed motorist named James Jahar Perez last year. Sery was cleared of criminal wrongdoing by a grand jury.

Information from The Oregonian

Source: Associated Press (Wire)
Published: March 24, 2005
Copyright: 2005 The Associated Press

"...And once you're gone, you can't come back
When you're out of the blue and into the black."
Neil Young

[Gravitymaster 0]

If this is true, I hope she wins triple the damages she's asking for.

[rushmc 23]

Make that two of us hoping (if the report it factual) she wins

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[AggieDave 6]

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Make that two of us hoping (if the report it factual) she wins

If the report is factual and unbiased, then by god I hope she wins as well.

Its also nice to see that she's not suing for $1,000,000 as well. I'm so tired of the multi-million dollar lawsuits coming out of unfortunate events.

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

[Steel 0]

This is a terrible thing. However, worse things are happening daily. It just provoke more thought because she seems so helpless. In this book "Legal muscle, I have been reading there are many events as such cited, where guy's have had there house broken into in search for steroids that are obviously for personal use. After all is said and done they have been known to confisgate anything they could get their hands on, often leaving guys with families unable to transport themselves even to work.
On a different angle but basically from the same premise of stealing by the government. There was an old lady in Long Island with a house (paid for) worth over 500K. She was past due on her property taxes. (about 10K dollars worth) The city took her house sold it and kept all the money. Now how screwed up is that?

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No cigarettes, no sleep, no light, no sound.
Nothing to eat, no books to read.