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Jurisprudence SCOTUS Considers How Easy It Should Be for Police to Steal People’s Property This case could have life-changing consequences for people caught up in the legal system who haven’t ...

Asset forfeiture was used against bootleggers during Prohibition, but it really came into its own in the Reagan era, when the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984 empowered federal and local ...

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said police will have to show there is a probable cause to take assets, but the person will not have to be convicted of a crime to justify the seizure.