{"id":6857,"date":"2012-03-21T19:13:45","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T19:13:45","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T19:13:45","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6857","title":{"rendered":"BLT: &#8220;D.C. Judge Weighs Constitutional Challenge to &#8216;Post and Forfeit'&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BLT: <a href=\"http:\/\/legaltimes.typepad.com\/blt\/2012\/03\/dc-judge-weighs-constitutional-challenge-to-post-and-forfeit.html\">D.C. Judge Weighs Constitutional Challenge to &#8216;Post and Forfeit&#8217;<\/a> by Zoe Tillman:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson heard arguments today about whether a legal challenge to a controversial post-arrest procedure in the District of Columbia known as &#8220;post and forfeit&#8221; should survive a motion to dismiss.<\/p>\n<p>Under &#8220;post and forfeit,&#8221; a person arrested for certain low-level offenses in D.C. can post collateral and then agree to forfeit it in exchange for having the case essentially dropped. The Metropolitan Police Department has come under scrutiny in the past amid concerns that officers used &#8220;post and forfeit&#8221; to quickly close and cover up wrongful arrests.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6857\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6857","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}