Martin Bell

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474 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2025 last heard 20 Aug

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And we had needed to establish this in order to get the information required for a seizure warrant.

Right.

Because you can't just have the government running around

Stealing people's dinosaur fossils without justification.

And they were able to adjudge that it came from Mongolia if only because in the entire history of paleontology

There's only one region.

That contains the soil composition that allows these particular fossils to be preserved.

And that is.

The Namegd Basin in the Gobi Desert in Mongolia.

Clever girl.

And so, with that probable cause having been established, we appeared before a judge.

Um, in the southern district of New York, and he was very enthusiastic.

about the case and its possibility, in large part because he too had once been an eight-year-old boy.

And so he asked a number of questions that you don't get in most conferences, like, can it fit in my courtroom?

Where can we put it?

Um what sort of assembly would be required?

This was all happening on the civil side, but on the criminal side

We were trying to figure out whether a crime had been committed here.

The same crime that sort of forms the basis for potential forfeiture action may also be prosecutable on its own.

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