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  2. Civil forfeiture in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In civil forfeiture, assets are seized by police based on a suspicion of wrongdoing, and without having to charge a person with specific wrongdoing, with the case being between police and the thing itself, sometimes referred to by the Latin term in rem, meaning "against the property"; the property itself is the defendant and no criminal charge ...

  3. Police Cannot Seize Property Indefinitely After an Arrest ...

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    The plaintiffs each had their property seized by D.C.'s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD). Five of the plaintiffs were arrested during a Black Lives Matter protest in the Adams Morgan ...

  4. Tenaha, Texas asset forfeiture controversy - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] At least 150 motorists had property seized by the Tenaha marshal’s office, totaling more than US$3 million. [2] Examples of seizures from non-whites included: A mixed-race family of four traveling through Tenaha was pulled over by marshals for a moving violation. Officers found no contraband but seized $6,037 after a search.

  5. Search and seizure - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. New safeguards on Kansas police seizures of property coming ...

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    More than 70% of the 1,884 seizure incidents between July 2019 and November 2023 resulted in uncontested or default forfeitures of property, according to official Kansas data. Half of seizures ...

  7. Kansas House and Senate pass bills reforming police seizure ...

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    It found that more than $23 million in property was seized during 2,000 police contacts in that timeframe. The committee recommended the following: Removing simple possession as a reason to seize ...

  8. Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. Kansas police abuse property seizure laws. Both right and ...

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    A report released last week by the Americans for Prosperity Foundation, a conservative group, found that Kansas law enforcement agencies seized $25.3 million in money and property from people ...