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PCR Exhibits - Alaska State of Corruption

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passes muster under substantive due process because equal protection<br />

scrutiny is stricter. Id. at 1124-25. <strong>Alaska</strong>’s statute will probably pass muster<br />

because there is a reasonable relationship between the goal <strong>of</strong> limiting violence<br />

committed by young people with ATV’s and prohibiting those young people<br />

from possessing the ATV’s.<br />

(Haeg never received any hearing, either pre or postseizure, after the seizure <strong>of</strong> his property –<br />

and the troopers, in their own report, documented that Haeg asked “When I can I get my plane<br />

back because I have clients coming in tomorrow and have to set up bear camp.” The troopers<br />

responded “Never.” Brent Cole, Haeg’s first attorney, testified under oath at Bar Fee Arbitration<br />

that the law did not allow a hearing. Haeg’s property, including airplane, was forfeited and<br />

afterward the state argued they had authority to do so under the same forfeiture statutes as Waiste<br />

v. <strong>State</strong> – as they failed to ever place a forfeiture notice in any charging document – as required.<br />

After Haeg’s property was forfeited the state prosecutor, Scot Leaders, stated in a certified<br />

document that Haeg had no right to a postseizure hearing.)<br />

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