Sentences with phrase «on civil forfeiture»

Just as Justice Breyer has spent the past few years trying to set up the pins to knock down the death penalty, Thomas is trying to get the elements together to allow a sweeping new rule on civil forfeiture.

Below you will find an excerpt on civil forfeiture and peace bonds from the book as well as a trailer for the book and a video blawg...

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Most of the civil forfeiture cases have been put on hold while the Justice Department is pursuing a criminal investigation.

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.

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 OSC can not on its own compel a civil forfeiture to the Crown.

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.

With respect to civil forfeiture, civil courts, now the functional delegates of criminal adjudication, determine whether the property at issue is the proceeds of crime, on reduced standards of proof.