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In legal terms, it is an in rem case (against a thing) as opposed to an in personam case (against a person). Here is the docket for a real case that happened after police seized money. From 2006 to 2008, currency deposits alone exceeded $1 billion for each year. Source: the Institute for Justice [34]
Dareton police search the vehicle of a suspected drug smuggler in Wentworth, in the state of New South Wales, Australia, near the border with Victoria.. Search and seizure is a procedure used in many civil law and common law legal systems by which police or other authorities and their agents, who, suspecting that a crime has been committed, commence a search of a person's property and ...
The Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches and seizures extends to the length of a seizure, a federal court ruled last week, significantly restricting how long law enforcement ...
With rented property, a landlord may refuse to allow law enforcement to search a tenant's apartment without a search warrant, and police must obtain a warrant under the same guidelines as if the tenant were the owner of the property. [18] People who are occupying rooms at hotels or motels have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their rooms.
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. [1]
The new law requires clear and convincing evidence to move forward with a seizure, an intermediate standard short of beyond a reasonable doubt but greater than preponderance of the evidence.
“Most of the changes that Senate Bill 458 makes to the Act do an excellent job of balancing law enforcement’s need for such a tool and the desire of all of us to protect the due process rights ...
A law enforcement agency (LEA) has powers, which other government subjects do not, to enable the LEA to undertake its responsibilities. These powers are generally in one of six forms: Exemptions from laws; Intrusive powers, for search, seizure, and interception; Legal deception; Use of force and constraint of liberty; Jurisdictional override ...