There’s a simple explanation for why civil asset forfeiture laws are coming under fire—they ruin lives. Not in the way a hefty speeding ticket or 7 am-on-the-dot tow “ruins lives,” but in a real, “my life savings are gone and I don’t know how I’m going to pay for my...
This article examines the results of research that analyzed asset forfeiture litigation from the U.S. Court of Appeals. More specifically, the research focused on the characteristics and outcomes of 193 cases in which plaintiffs were seeking the return of assets. The research also examined the ...
“civil asset forfeiture"的最常见翻译: 资产的民事没收.上下文翻译: Civil asset forfeiture legislation prepared with support from UNODC was approved in Peru and was to be presented for approval in Ecuador in December 2008. ↔ 在禁毒办支持下制定的民事资产
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Raise the burden of proof in civil asset forfeiture proceedings. Current civil asset forfeiture laws allow law enforcement to seize an arrested individual’s assets without proving a crime was actually committed. Once useful, this practice now endangers
If you want to curb the improper use of civil asset forfeiture, make the incentives work so that law enforcement will only use it when they really need to. Not only would seized assets no longer directly benefit their budgets, it would fund the attorneys that help keep their a...
One aspect of this war, civil asset forfeiture, has been used as a tool by federal, state, and local law enforcement to "take the profit out of the drug trade" and to increase the amount of revenues that law enforcement may use to carry out the "war on drugs." The purpose of this...
Civil asset forfeiture was a largely unused common law practice reinvigorated in the 1970s in response to rising crime rates. Crime continued to rise for a quarter century in spite of the practice. But law enforcement and district attorney offices sure saw the advantage of the practice—they got...
Civil asset forfeiture is big business and many times only tangentially related to law enforcement, if at all. But how does the process work? First, there are three different kinds of property that can be seized under the law: Proceeds:Anything of value obtained through the commiss...