Paul Hansen Provides Legal Theory Behind Kent Hovind’s Half-Billion Dollar Lawsuit
Originally published on Forbes.com. Kent Hovind’s half -billion dollar lawsuit against the federal government and others has him back preaching, if not practicing the...
Kent Hovind’s Half-Billion Dollar Lawsuit – Legal Analysis
What is extraordinary to me is not so much the confidence that they have that they are right. It is the seeming total assurance that they will prevail. Kent explains the “verified complaint” argument with one of his sports analogies. Under Paul John Hansen Law there must be a “verified complaint” in order for a grand jury to consider an indictment.
They have asked the clerk of the court for a copy of the verified complaint. There is not one. So under Hansen law that means that even though federal prosecutors hit a home run with Kent’s 2006 conviction, long sentence and property forfeiture which was upheld on appeal, it was all for naught, because they failed to touch first base as they rounded it.
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