Ohio court imprisons innocent old man, loots his estate

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http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/20/2008/3056


Norman Baker is an American hero who has been detained against his will for more than three years.

His "crime": owning too much property.

His sentence: a court-appointed guardianship on the brink of costing him everything he spent his life building.

His rights in this case: virtually none, significantly less in many ways than an actual law-breaking criminal.

His future if this continues: long-term de facto imprisonment, followed by abject poverty, if he has anything left at all.

A retired firefighter who once helped save a child's life, Norman Baker is not suspected of terrorism. He has never been charged with any statutory infraction, and has never been in any kind of trouble with the law. ?But he has been stripped of his right to vote and access to his own assets, which appear to have been weel in excess of $1 million as little as three years ago.

[KBCraig]