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Under typical civil asset forfeiture laws, police can seize property suspected of being connected to illegal activity even if the owner isn't charged with a crime. Law enforcement groups say the ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. deputy attorney general has suspended a controversial civil asset-forfeiture program by the Drug Enforcement Administration that targeted unsuspecting airline ...
Asset forfeiture or asset seizure is a form of confiscation of assets by the authorities. In the United States, it is a type of criminal-justice financial obligation . It typically applies to the alleged proceeds or instruments of crime.
Both civil and criminal forfeiture involve the taking of assets by police. 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 ...
Title XII – Supplemental Rules for Admiralty or Maritime Claims and Asset Forfeiture Actions [ edit ] Rule A outlines the scope and application of the supplementary rules in respect to certain remedies under admiralty and maritime claims, forfeiture actions in rem , and the procedure in statutory condemnation proceedings analogous to maritime ...
Equitable sharing refers to a United States program in which the proceeds of liquidated seized assets from asset forfeiture are shared between state and federal law enforcement authorities. The Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984 set up the arrangement in which state and local police can share the seizures with federal agents. [1]
The ruling is the second recent court decision that has curbed Detroit's aggressive vehicle forfeiture program. Michigan Supreme Court Rules Against Detroit's Asset Forfeiture Racket Skip to main ...
Comprehensive Forfeiture Act of 1984; ... Stipulations about using civil forfeiture to seize assets of organized crime, establishing "equitable sharing." [7]