Rand Paul introduces bill to reform civil asset forfeiture

Re:Rand Paul introduces bill to reform civil asset forfeiture by watwut on Sunday July 27, 2014 @09:10AM (#8092638)

Preponderance of the evidence is balance of probabilities. E.g. if it is 51% likely that you did it, it is assumed you did it. Clear and convincing evidence means that it must be highly and substantially more probable that you are guilty in order to be assumed so. E.g. 51% would not do it.

In any case, forfeiture was done to people who were not even charged with anything, much less convinced of a crime.

Both are legal definitions. Convenient wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_burden_of_proof

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Re:Rand Paul introduces bill to reform civil asset forfeiture by cottonseed on Sunday July 27, 2014 @10:00AM (#8092752)

Thanks for the explanation and the link!

> In any case, forfeiture was done to people who were not even charged with anything, much less convinced of a crime.

It looks like that isn't changing under this reform.

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Re:Rand Paul introduces bill to reform civil asset forfeiture by e40 on Sunday July 27, 2014 @10:30AM (#8092834)

It looks like that isn't changing under this reform.

Which would seem to be one of the worse problems with current law, no?

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