{"id":35943,"date":"2018-12-29T00:00:17","date_gmt":"2018-12-29T05:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=35943"},"modified":"2018-12-28T22:45:08","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T03:45:08","slug":"techdirt-county-pays-90000-settlement-to-man-after-seizing-80000-judgment-from-him-using-24-deputies-and-an-armored-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=35943","title":{"rendered":"Techdirt: County Pays $90,000 Settlement To Man After Seizing $80,000 Judgment From Him Using 24 Deputies And An Armored Vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Techdirt: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20181227\/17181041302\/county-pays-90000-settlement-to-man-after-seizing-80000-judgment-him-using-24-deputies-armored-vehicle.shtml\">County Pays $90,000 Settlement To Man After Seizing $80,000 Judgment From Him Using 24 Deputies And An Armored Vehicle<\/a> by Tim Cushing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When all you have is a war hammer, everything looks like a war. That&#8217;s how Wisconsin law enforcement viewed the task it was given: collection of an $80,000 civil judgment from a resident of Marathon County. What should have been a deputy or two approaching the resident and apprising him of his legal options, the Marathon County Sheriff&#8217;s Department chose to handle it this way: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When officials in the tiny Town of Stettin in Marathon County went to collect a civil judgment from 75-year-old Roger Hoeppner this month, they sent 24 armed officers.<br \/>\nAnd an armored military vehicle. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Techdirt: County Pays $90,000 Settlement To Man After Seizing $80,000 Judgment From Him Using 24 Deputies And An Armored Vehicle by Tim Cushing: When all you have is a war hammer, everything looks like a war. That&#8217;s how Wisconsin law &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=35943\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-warrant-execution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35944,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35943\/revisions\/35944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}