What Is a Civil Asset Forfeiture?

The government doesn't need to prove you did anything wrong. All it needs to do is demonstrate by a preponderance of the evidence that your property is somehow connected to a crime and therefore is subject to forfeiture currency. Cash is particularly vulnerable to this argument. Courts have repeatedly ruled that possession of a large sum of currency is strong evidence of a connection to trafficking in illegal drugs. Merely possessing currency provides the government with sufficient evidence to seize it, unless you can provide clear and credible evidence that it's not connected to illegal drugs. And even then, you might still lose it,. as illustrated by the confiscation of 124 thousand 700 dollars from three motorists in nebraska during a traffic stop