Defenders argue asset seizure bill is too mild; compromises have tarnished their gains, criminal lawyers say
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Issues are discussed regarding the Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act of 2000, and it will probably be signed before Easter 2000. The burden of proof for showing that a seized item is connected to the crime will shift to the government. The state still needs only probable cause to seize property, but must, if challenged, justify the seizure under the new evidentiary standard.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 2000
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Putting defenders on the defensive; the criminal defense bar says the DOJ is treating some lawyers in drug cases like criminals
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Cases filed after the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 and the Money Laundering Act of 1986, laws which barred the use of criminally derived property in monetary transactions, charging that criminal defense lawyers were paid with such property. These were mainly drug trafficking cases filed in Manhattan and Florida.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 2001
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Drug seizure proposal condemned; experts say lowering of legal standard would violate 4th Amendment
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A proposed lowering to reasonable suspicion from probable cause of the standard for drug searches is of interest to conservatives but a source of outrage to civil libertarians. The lack of a possibility of arrest of suspects and to use the evidence in court are key to the concept. The drugs would just be seized and destroyed. Civil libertarians say the freedom from prosecution does not satisfy the Fourth Amendment.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1997
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