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N.D.Tex.: Search of religious offices for tracts on fake $1M bill violated Fourth Amendment

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

Secret service agents when to the Great News Network (GNN), a religious organization, to seize $1,000,000 bills that they used as a religious tract. The court finds that because the government does not issue any currency over $100, nobody would be misled, aside from the printing on the bill about going to heaven. The bill was fairly characterized as a religious tract. Its warrantless seizure from the GNN offices from a person they knew was powerless to consent was invalid, as was the consent because it was coerced. Rundus v. United States, 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 31748 (N.D. Tex. March 30, 2010).* See posts on GNN, Christian Post, PrisonPlanet.com. One would think that the Secret Service would better train its officers. Defendant’s stop for a traffic offense led to the development of reasonable suspicion...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on April 03, 2010 (boomark / email).