The Yale Law Journal

Richard J.S. Peay

Note

To Be Given to God: Contemporary Civil Forfeiture as a Taking

Richard J.S. Peay

Civil asset forfeiture was once a law-enforcement tool. Today, however, police and prosecutors use forfeiture to fundraise, not to fight crime. This Note challenges the constitutionality of these profit-motivated government confiscations. It argues that these “contemporary civil forfeitures” are not…