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Monday, November 29, 2010
Courts - "These assets turn into crime-fighting tools"
Joseph H. Hogsett, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Indiana, has an opinion piece today in the Indianapolis Star, lauding the federal asset forfeiture process. It begins:
The Star's recent report on the varied applications of Indiana's state forfeiture law was quite revealing. On the federal level, the rules and standards for forfeiture are much less discretionary and concerns highlighted in the recent Star articles do not exist.However, the federal system is not without criticism. See, for example, this Feb. 1, 2010 ILB entry headed "Asset Forfeiture: 'A License to Steal.'”
For more, see this entry from Oct. 14, 2009, headed "SCOTUS looks at asset-forfeiture hearings, in a review of a 7th Circuit opinion," and this one from Dec. 8, 2009.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on November 29, 2010 09:57 AM
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