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Opinion of Civil Forfeiture

What is your opinion of civil forfeiture?

  • Positive

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Negative

    Votes: 9 90.0%

  • Unsure

    Votes: 1 10.0%
  • Total voters
    10
An unjust law that is too often abused. Our nation cannot be truly free so long as the government steals from its own citizens.
 
I understand taking property from criminals who have obtained the property illegally. That makes sense to me. The problem I have is that a person suspected of a crime, not a person convicted of a crime, can be targeted with this law. People who are hit with this, who have not been found guilty of any crime, then have to prove that they are not a criminal. It is a huge overstepping of the authority our government is supposed to have.
 
HowardBThiname said:
I wholeheartedly agree with you. Unfortunately, the SCOTUS has upheld civil forfeiture in some cases and now it's misused by many departments.
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I would say that its use is misuse. It is the most comically anti-constitutional law I'm aware of, and if I had to choose just one ruling that made me doubt my understanding of the constitution at all, the USSC's decision allowing civil forfeiture would be it.
 
SocialDemocrat said:
Essentially legalized thievery by the government, utterly terrible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United_States
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Civil forfeiture is nothing more than theft. One of the reasons they use civil courts is because civil trials have a lower standard of proof than criminal trials do. Forfeiture should never happen without a criminal conviction of the individual who is accused of making that money or assets illegally. The idea that they can just sue the item itself is ludicrous and should be illegal.No one sues the gun, knife,baseball bat or some other weapon used in a murder, assault or other criminal trial.
 
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