Sentences with phrase «civil asset forfeiture in»

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Cyrus R. Vance Jr., the Manhattan district attorney, announced a program on Wednesday under which $ 35 million in civil forfeiture assets will be used to help other cities and states tackle their own (rape - kit) backlogs, which, nationally, total in the hundreds of thousands.

A state judge in Pennsylvania called the civil asset forfeiture process «state - sanctioned theft».

This resulted in a complete victory for the client, thereby securing the return of their cash and handing the prosecutor representing the government in the matter his first loss in a civil asset forfeiture case in decades.

A new report by the Canadian Constitution Foundation and Institute for Liberal Studies says the civil forfeiture laws are cash grabs for provincial governments, which have collected millions of dollars in assets as proceeds of crime.

However, in a civil asset forfeiture matter, there is no corresponding criminal charge or investigation.

The number of cases in which abatement will occur is fairly small, I suspect, and it's not as if the government does not have access to civil forfeiture to recover Lay's assets.

Law enforcement officers usually don't have much to gain from lying (although this equation changes a law when police department can receive assets seized in civil forfeitures that they are involved in) and usually they want people who are «bad guys» to be in jail to protect «good guys» although they aren't always very concerned about the means by which they achieve these ends.

Raised in Colombia, Marcela has experience representing a wide range of Latin American and other foreign clients in the United States as well as domestic clients in international transaction and litigation matters, including civil asset forfeiture defense, regulatory compliance and financial services.

Marcela has experience representing a wide range of Latin American and other foreign clients in the United States as well as domestic clients in international transaction and litigation matters, including civil asset forfeiture defense, regulatory compliance and financial services.