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| Giga Bits (more) | 7 | government | asset seizures |
| Forfeiture | Asset Forfeiture | 1996 | law enforcement officials |
| Property | 1985 | 100 | America |
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U.S. Marshals Service: Asset Forfeiture Program The US Marshals Service explains the goals and benefits of the asset forfeiture program. Search in Category: Regional: North America: United States: Government: Executive Branch: Department of Justice: U.S. Marshals Service Search in Category: Society: Law: Law Enforcement: Government Agencies: United States Search in Category: Regional: North America: United States: Government: Executive Branch: Department of Justice Search in Category: Society: Issues: Crime and Justice Search in Category: Society: Law: Law Enforcement: Prosecuting Attorneys: United States: Federal www.usdoj.gov/marshals/assets/assets.html - cached |
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American Forfeiture Law: Property Owners Meet the Prosecutor A Policy Analysis from the Cato Institute that discusses the history of forfeiture and how it has enhanced the power of government over people and their property in ways that are difficult to reconcile with long-cherished constitutional rights. Search in Category: Regional: North America: United States: Society and Culture: Politics: Policy Institutes Search in Category: Society: Issues: Policy Institutes: C Search in Category: Society: Politics: Liberalism: Libertarianism: Institutes www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-179es.html - cached |
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Forfeiture Endangers American Rights Foundation FEAR is an American nonprofit organization dedicated to reform of federal and state asset forfeiture laws to restore due process and protect property rights in the forfeiture process. Search in Category: Society: Law: Legal Information: Law Reform www.fear.org - cached |
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Justice Management Division: Asset Forfeiture Program The primary asset forfeiture pages of the US Department of Justice. Search in Category: Regional: North America: United States: Government: Executive Branch: Department of Justice Search in Category: Society: Issues: Crime and Justice Search in Category: Society: Law: Law Enforcement: Prosecuting Attorneys: United States: Federal www.usdoj.gov/jmd/afp - cached |
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American RadioWorks : Corrections Inc. The war on drugs took off when police agencies got a new incentive to chase drug offenders: the ability to keep cash and vehicles seized in drug operations. Critics say asset forfeiture skews police priorities by giving them a monetary stake in the war on drugs. Read, Listen (Real Audio, 19:30 min) Search in Category: Arts: Radio: Formats: Public Radio: Minnesota Public Radio Search in Category: News: Internet Broadcasts: Audio americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/corrections/cops1.html - cached | |
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Drug loot fuels drug war A series of articles on forfeiture by the Standard Times newspaper of SouthCoast, MA. Very balanced, providing views from both sides of this issue. Search in Category: News: Newspapers: Regional: United States: Massachusetts Search in Category: Regional: North America: United States: Massachusetts: Regions: South Shore: News and Media www.s-t.com/daily/08-99/08-08-99/a01lo010.htm - published: Aug 08 1999 - cached | |
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Executive Privateers A Discussion on Why the Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act Will Not Significantly Reform the Practice of Forfeiture Search in Category: Society: Law: Legal Information: Law Reform www.fear.org/hadaway.html - published: Nov 14 2002 - cached | |
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Introduction to "Your House is Under Arrest" Excerpt from book about how police can seize you home, car and business without a trial and how to protect yourself, by Brenda Grantland. Search in Category: Society: Issues: Conspiracy Search in Category: Society: Issues: Personal Multi-issues Pages: S Search in Category: Society: Politics: Liberalism: Libertarianism: People: Personal Pages www.serendipity.li/wod/yhiua_in.html - cached | |
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JMD: AFP: 2001 Asset Forfeiture Fund Reports Here you can see the annual reports on the looting by the Justice Department. Treasury has similar reports. Search in Category: Regional: North America: United States: Government: Executive Branch: Department of Justice Search in Category: Society: Issues: Crime and Justice Search in Category: Society: Law: Law Enforcement: Prosecuting Attorneys: United States: Federal www.usdoj.gov/jmd/afp/02fundreport/FY2001AFPLinks.htm - cached | |
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Property and Liberty: You can't give up one without losing the other Asserting that private property rights are necessary for personal freedom. Search in Category: News: Alternative Search in Category: Society: Politics: News and Media: Progressive and Left www.progress.org/leon01.htm - published: Jan 02 1999 - cached | |
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Reforming Property Forfeiture Laws to Protect Citizens' Rights A study of asset forfeiture by the Macinac Center, which concludes nine specific reforms are necessary to reduce the unfairness and abuses of the present system. Search in Category: Regional: North America: United States: Michigan: Localities: M: Midland: Society and Culture Search in Category: Regional: North America: United States: Society and Culture: Politics: Policy Institutes Search in Category: Society: Issues: Policy Institutes: M Search in Category: Society: Politics: Liberalism: Libertarianism: Institutes www.mackinac.org/article.asp?ID=792 - cached | |
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The Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act 1997 (Testimony) Congressional testimony from Roger Pilon, Ph.D., J.D., Senior Fellow and Director Center for Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute, before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States House of Representatives, June 11, 1997. Search in Category: Regional: North America: United States: Society and Culture: Politics: Policy Institutes Search in Category: Society: Issues: Policy Institutes: C Search in Category: Society: Politics: Liberalism: Libertarianism: Institutes www.cato.org/testimony/ct-rp061197.html - published: Jun 11 1997 - cached | |
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The Devil is in the Details The Forfeiture Example of American 'Justice'. A heavy criticism of asset forfeiture by S. Leon Felkins. Search in Category: Society: Politics: Liberalism: Libertarianism: Anarcho-Capitalism: News and Media www.lewrockwell.com/orig/felkins11.html - published: Jan 17 2001 - cached | |
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Liberty, Attainder, Bills of Attainder & the Constitution Includes information relating the prohibition of Bills of Attainder to asset forfeiture. jimo9.freeservers.com - published: May 09 2000 - cached | |
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Losing Ones Livelihood to the Grasp of Fiction An introductory article on the law of civil forfeiture in the United States written in 1996 by Robert Shaw. Provides an overview of laws and legal standards, forfeiture's origins and history, law enforcement relationships and abuses, and suggestions for reform. www.qualitylegalcounsel.com/CivilForfeiture.pdf | |
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Steven L. Kessler Online articles, from an attorney and author with expertise in RICO and forfeiture. www.kessleronforfeiture.com - cached | |
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The Government's Legal Theft Racket Spirited attack on forfeiture law, by Michael Fumento. Discusses Tina Bennis case and others. www.fumento.com/theft.html - published: Jan 02 1996 - cached | |
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Bill Of Attainder Project A civil liberties organization started by the Libertarian Party of Oklahoma, which contacts political activists, organizations and others to oppose forfeiture. frontpage.brightok.net/~sempai/billofattainder - cached | |
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