<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/b16d1687-5989-4e58-b2cf-4728f139f5ba/F5A76100-4880-4C4E-8B98-E6926C27D690/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/603/tenaha_Texas_DA_asset_forfeiture_racial_profiling" href="http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/603/tenaha_Texas_DA_asset_forfeiture_racial_profiling" style="font-size: 11px;">stopthedrugwar.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/603/tenaha_Texas_DA_asset_forfeiture_racial_profiling"><H1 class="title">Asset Forfeiture: Texas DA Seeks to Use Seized Funds to Defend Herself in Lawsuit Over Unlawful Seizure of Same Funds</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/603/tenaha_Texas_DA_asset_forfeiture_racial_profiling"><P>The Texas district attorney accused of participating in <A target="_blank_" href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-texas-profiling_wittmar10,0,6051682.story">an egregious asset forfeiture scheme in the East Texas town of Tenaha</A> now wants to use the very cash seized to pay for her legal defense in a <A target="_blank_" href="http://www.aclu.org/racialjustice/racialprofiling/41213lgl20091001.html">federal civil rights lawsuit</A> filed by victims of the practice. The <A target="_blank_" href="http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/603/www.aclutx.org">ACLU of Texas</A>, which, along with the national ACLU, is representing the plaintiffs in the case, filed a <A target="_blank_" href="http://www.aclu.org/racialjustice/racialprofiling/41213lgl20091001.html">brief</A> last Friday with the Texas Attorney General's office seeking to block her from doing so.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/603/tenaha_Texas_DA_asset_forfeiture_racial_profiling"><P>Lynda Russell is the district attorney in Shelby County, where Tenaha is located. She is accused of participating in a scheme where Tenaha police pulled over mostly African-American motorists without cause, asked them if they were carrying cash, and if they were, threaten them with being immediately jailed for money laundering or other serious crimes unless they signed over their money to authorities. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F5A76100-4880-4C4E-8B98-E6926C27D690/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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