Charges dropped in suspected Lancaster County drug stop

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans

LINCOLN, Neb. —Prosecutors in Lincoln dropped criminal charges in a case involving suspected drug money seized from a traffic stop. [Video: Charges dropped in suspected Lancaster County drug stop] A judge ruled the defendant had the right to independently test the cash for traces of narcotics, but found out the money was already gone. A traffic stop in Interstate 80 in April 2014 led to the seizure of $20,000 in neatly bundled cash and a small amount of suspected cocaine. Months later, when the attorney representing one of the defendants — Joseph Hacker, 29 — wanted to test the cash, it wasn’t available. “Unfortunately the cash had gone to the bank and back into the stream of commerce before we had the opportunity to independently test it,” John Berry said. A judge ruled that under the due process clause of the 14th Amendment, the state had a duty to preserve the evidence. Since it didn’t, it couldn’t use at trial the information that a drug dog detected the odor of narcotics on the cash. Last week, prosecutors dropped felony charges against Hacker. “I think as we see more and more interstate drug stops where cash is being seized, we’re going to […]

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