CentreForum also called for the threat of forfeiture, which means leaseholders can lose the full value of their property for minor debts, to be removed.
Similarly, he has revived a discredited approach to civil forfeiture, which will subject innocent people to the loss of their property.
Unlike criminal forfeiture, which requires that a person be convicted of an offense before his or her property is confiscated, civil forfeiture amounts to a lawsuit filed directly against a possession, regardless of its owner's guilt or innocence.
He dramatically increased both federal involvement in combating drugs and asset forfeiture, which allows law enforcement to seize goods and property believed to be used in crime or, more controversially, purchased with the proceeds of crime.
By Jeffrey Toobin The New Yorker, January 25 , 1993P. 31 Talk story about Clark Clifford's legal problems, which involve his role in the Bank of Credit & Commerce International scandal, and Judge Stephen G. Crane's refusal to lift a civil-forfeiture which froze all his New York State financial assets.
I have my problems with asset forfeiture, which has resulted in unfair confiscation of property by police.
And we have gotten a great deal of criticism for the asset forfeiture, which, as the sheriff said, frequently was taking narcotics proceeds and other proceeds of crime.
Unlike criminal forfeiture, which only allows the government to take someone's stuff after they have been convicted, civil forfeiture does not require law enforcement to convict or even charge someone with a crime before seizing their property.
The Court has also enabled the expansion of civil asset forfeiture, which allows law enforcement to take property from citizens, regardless of whether the property owner is guilty or innocent--and without even charging the owner with a crime.
The program gave police a way to skirt state laws on forfeiture, which tend to have more restrictions on the type or value of property that can be seized.
