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junglebob
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Posted: Thu Oct 8th, 2009 03:04 am |
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Botheyesonyou, If you beat the charges you may want to bring a lawsuit. A fellow in Illinois in Dupage County, near Chicago was arrested for Unlawful Use of Weapons because an unloaded handgun was found in his backpack when he was in a park. He was within the law and brought a lawsuit against the county. He settled out of court picked up a check for $50,000 as I recall. If you get a lawyer take it on contingency it may cost you 1/3 if he wins, nothing if he doesnt.
Codename47 has some good advice.
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Gator5713
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Posted: Fri Oct 9th, 2009 12:40 am |
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There was also a case just won in AZ by a member of this forum! Something to look into depending on how your case goes!
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codename_47
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Posted: Mon Oct 12th, 2009 02:10 am |
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If you get a lawyer take it on contingency it may cost you 1/3 if he wins, nothing if he doesnt.
I have seen 40% on contingency.
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mike75925
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Posted: Mon Nov 16th, 2009 02:44 pm |
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| have you heard of castle doctrine, texas has a version of it, i believe it came into effect in '08. and the year before i believe a law to where if you were traveling or at work or whatever you could have a gun with you. retarded a** cops. they could simply have smelled the barrel and let you go in a worst case scenario. still a violation of rights. i am of the mind that the standard by which they can legally search or seize is by warrant alone. apparently getting promoted is really hard to do in the police organizations. why else would they nit pick and bald face lie. for kicks? maybe. we need to start filing criminal charges on these morons with a badge, maybe then they will stop being punks, no offense dwalton
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NativH
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Posted: Thu Jan 14th, 2010 04:23 pm |
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codename_47 wrote: If you get a lawyer take it on contingency it may cost you 1/3 if he wins, nothing if he doesnt.
I have seen 40% on contingency.
Having been involved in several cases personally, none gun related, it is usually 40% "after" the attorney recoups his costs. So you really probably end up with about 50% max but that is better than nothing. Plus the real reason to sue is not for the money, it is for the principal of the matter and to let them know they shouldn't have done that.
Last edited on Thu Jan 14th, 2010 04:23 pm by NativH
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