Re:Stop-And-Seize Turns Police into Self-Funding Gangs
by dragonwriter on Saturday November 14, 2015 @01:01AM
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> The seizure happened under civil forfeiture law, a the second paragraph of The Economist article makes that clear.
The initial seizure happened because property was targetted for civil forfeiture, the expanded seizure happened because property was targetted for criminal forfeiture, the request for a pre-trial hearing (which was denied leading to the series of appeals that ultimately reached the Supreme Court) was for a challenge to the criminal forfeiture action.
The question addressed in the Supreme Court case was about criminal, not civil forfeiture.
The initial seizure happened because property was targetted for civil forfeiture, the expanded seizure happened because property was targetted for criminal forfeiture, the request for a pre-trial hearing (which was denied leading to the series of appeals that ultimately reached the Supreme Court) was for a challenge to the criminal forfeiture action.
The question addressed in the Supreme Court case was about criminal, not civil forfeiture.