Sentences with phrase «in civil forfeiture»

Nicholas is regularly instructed to represent defendants in high value confiscation proceedings and in civil forfeiture.

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.

In addition to the 37 month prison sentence, Gallagher was sentenced to 2 years supervised release, $ 125,000 in civil forfeiture and $ 125,000 in restitution to the City School District of New Rochelle.

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.

Not exact matches

Another biggie: Certain public officials who commit crimes related to their public offices may have their pensions reduced or forfeited in a new civil forfeiture proceeding brought by the attorney general or the prosecutor who handled the conviction of the official.

The county legislature has passed a new law that provides for civil forfeiture in misdemeanor drug cases.

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

Georgia has some of the worst civil forfeiture laws in the nation, a problem compounded by law enforcement agencies» routine failure to report forfeiture revenue and expenditures as required by law.

Civil forfeiture is the government power to take property suspected of involvement in a crime.

Georgia has some of the worst civil forfeiture laws in the country.

In the upside - down world of civil forfeiture, police and prosecutors can seize and keep cash and property that was allegedly involved in criminal activity — without ever proving a crime was actually committeIn the upside - down world of civil forfeiture, police and prosecutors can seize and keep cash and property that was allegedly involved in criminal activity — without ever proving a crime was actually committein criminal activity — without ever proving a crime was actually committed.

Civil forfeiture laws pose some of the greatest threats to property rights in the nation today, too often making it easy and lucrative for law enforcement to take and keep property — regardless of the owner's guilt or innocence.

The $ 426,500 penalty — which was the amount of cash FESA and Families for Excellent Schools had on hand as of August 21 — represents the largest civil forfeiture negotiated by the OCPF in the agency's 44 - year history.

The Office of Campaign and Political Finance settlement with FESA required FESA to forfeit over $ 425,000 — the largest civil forfeiture in the agency's history, and prohibits them from fundraising, soliciting donations, or engaging in any election - related activity in Massachusetts for four years.

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.

She has represented numerous individuals in both the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York in both criminal and civil matters and has experience in all phases of the litigation process in white collar and federal criminal matters, as well as government and internal investigations, including pre-indictment advocacy, grand jury investigations, complex bail proceedings, pretrial motions, motions in limine, jury selection, trials, sentencing, restitution, forfeiture, and other post-conviction proceedings.

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.

Mr. McShane has defended public contractors in bid protest actions and construction defect litigation, pursued commercial code and contract remedies for financial institutions and corporations, prosecuted and defended legal malpractice cases and protected lenders» interests in bankruptcy estates and civil forfeiture cases.

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

But the same standard does not apply in civil cases, including civil forfeiture.

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.

The firm recently acted in matters relating to confiscation proceedings, cash seizure, forfeiture, restraint orders, property freezing orders and civil recovery orders under the Proceeds of Crime Act and tipping off offences in accordance with National Criminal Intelligence Service «NCIS».

Dino's other pro bono cases have involved prisoner civil rights, abused children, the homeless, and innocent home owners in forfeiture proceeds.

Proceeds of crime: The firm assists clients in matters involving cash seizure, detention and forfeiture; civil forfeiture and civil recovery and confiscation orders, restraints and receivership, and revenue functions.

In criminal enforcement matters, the DOJ may seize the property of a defendant through either criminal or civil forfeiture proceedings.30

Law enforcement officials would have the «same criminal and civil forfeiture powers used in drug prosecutions,» and wiretapping would be permitted in criminal infringement investigations.

To date, civil forfeiture statutes have been enacted in the following eight Canadian provinces: Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, and Quebec.

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.

The prevalence of shorter, simpler emails is also consistent with my recent legal experience as a litigation associate in a large law firm before starting to teach legal writing full - time — an experience I have drawn on in trying to design realistic assignments.59 The emails I wrote often dealt with relatively straightforward substantive matters, procedural questions surrounding litigation, or some combination of the two, such as the steps for having an appellate court relinquish jurisdiction to correct a scrivener's error in a lower - court judgment or the timeline for responding to an in rem civil forfeiture action.

The deadline for filing a claim in an in rem civil forfeiture proceeding is not «probably» one date or another.

I also wouldn't rule out the possibility that some court might construe the safe harbors from discipline for unauthorized practice in Rule 5.5 as informing (or, despite the Rules» plain terms, even defining) licensure requirements, and thus helping to define safe harbors from any sanction for unauthorized practice, including the civil fee forfeiture that often accompanies a determination of unauthorized practice, or the misdemeanor criminal liability to which my post refers.

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.

A circuit solicitor may employ outside counsel, in his discretion, without approval of the Attorney General, for civil forfeiture proceedings arising from criminal activity or from estreatment of bail bonds.

Topics that will be covered include civil forfeiture proceedings and charter violations; police - issued process and warrants; expert evidence in drug cases; bail reviews; video testimony; recanting witnesses; pre-trial credit, victim fine surcharges; mandatory minimums; bail reviews; new issues in drinking and driving laws and pardons.

This statement of Sullivan J was made by him in the judgment five paragraphs before he stated explicitly that one should not confuse and read across the provisions of POCA 2002 relating to civil recovery proceedings with those provisions that relate to summary proceedings for cash forfeiture and detention.

The US Justice Department received $ 48 million from the sale of 144,336 bitcoins in September 2017, following the forfeiture of Ulbricht's parallel civil claims action.

When disputes arise over the disbursement of earnest money funds, you may find yourself caught in the middle, facing civil liability, forfeiture of compensation, or disciplinary action by the real estate commission.

The finding «represents the largest civil forfeiture jury verdict and the largest terrorism - related civil forfeiture in U.S. history,» Joon H. Kim, the acting U.S. Attorney in Manhattan, said in a statement.