Stopped in motor home for going too slow on I-80
This just goes to show how things can escalate to a huge problem when you are just driving along minding your own business. Kinda hard to believe this goes on. Motor home stopped for going too slow
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Skylark wrote:
U.S. Forfeiture laws were originally passed in 1988.
When first used, it was very much abused, some changes have been made to curtail abuse, but abuse has not stopped. Some would not be so naive about the abuse if they would study case law.
For civil forfeiture read the link.
Civil Forfeiture
For RICO forfeiture read this link.
Forfeiture
You are correct, there were some abuses and laws were modified to curtail those abuses. The example in the case we are talking about with the motorhome was not an abuse. It's clear the money in this case was gains from drug sales. As far as abuses continuing, it's possible, but I'd have to look at each case and form my own opinion about that. Just because a case is lost by the government in court, does not mean it was an abuse. Many examples of abuse come from stories from attorneys and drug dealers who have lost their money.
