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Kim Dotcom's Assets Seizure Order Ruled "Null and Void"

Posted by samzenpus on from the whoops-our-bad dept.

thomst writes "Cnet's Greg Sandoval reports that New Zealand police filed for the wrong kind of restraining order--the kind that didn't allow for DotCom to have a court hearing prior to the seizure — and that was a mistake, according to a report in the New Zealand Herald. A court has now ruled that the restraining order that enabled police to seize his assets is 'null and void,' and a review of the mistakes made will soon be conducted by New Zealand's attorney general, according to the Herald. The paper noted that there's no guarantee that DotCom will prevail. His lawyers must prove the absence of good faith when the procedural error was made."

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  1. When will they seize Time Warner's assets? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka5oLSuiUGs

  2. Re:I'm divided by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So if he was innocent but they had the correct paperwork, everything would be ok with you?

  3. Re:I'm divided by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Exactly. You know the post the other day regarding the American getting charged with child pornography for having manga on his PC? This one:

    http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/03/15/2034252/canadian-charges-against-us-manga-reader-dropped

    That happened because the government created the precedent by prosecuting John Sharpe for his drawings. Since Sharpe also had pictures of child pornography, and indeed was likely a child toucher, it was an easy win because the public vilified him for BOTH things (drawings/books and the pictures) and therefore decided that throwing away their rights was worth it to put him in prison rather than realizing there's two separate cases there (the thought expression vs. the pictures).

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._v._Sharpe