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Conviction of the property owner is required, but the property owner is required to contest the forfeiture. Conviction provision does not apply if the owner agreed to help investigators in exchange for immunity or a reduced sentence. Once the owner is convicted, the property must be linked to the crime via clear and convincing evidence.
If it is successful, the owner may yet prevail by establishing an "innocent owner" defense. Federal civil forfeiture cases usually start with a seizure of property followed by the mailing of a notice of seizure from the seizing agency (generally the DEA or FBI) to the owner. The owner then has 35 days to file a claim with the seizing agency.
The Kansas House and Senate each passed their own versions of laws reforming civil asset forfeiture, the practice of police confiscation of property that’s allegedly involved in criminal activities.
Confiscation (from the Latin confiscatio "to consign to the fiscus, i.e. transfer to the treasury") is a legal form of seizure by a government or other public authority. The word is also used, popularly, of spoliation under legal forms, or of any seizure of property as punishment or in enforcement of the law.
The owner, Lewayne Bartel, had heard about the arrests and went to the property to investigate. He asked Tracy to come to the property, and the two men went inside, where they found marijuana ...
Alvarez v. Smith, 558 U.S. 87 (2009), was a United States Supreme Court decision on seizure of property by the Chicago Police Department, however the case was declared moot by the Court as the parties agreed that there was no longer contention over the property seized.
The DEA returned her money after she challenged the seizure as well. ... police can seize cash and property suspected of being connected to illegal activity, even if the owner is not charged with ...
The Fourth Amendment proscribes unreasonable seizure of any person, person's home (including its curtilage) or personal property without a warrant. A seizure of property occurs when there is "some meaningful interference with an individual's possessory interests in that property," [77] such as when police officers take personal property away ...