All Articles tagged forfeiture

• General
  March 23, 2015 EDT
  INDIAN TRIBES AND GUN REGULATION: SHOULD TRIBES EXERCISE THEIR SOVEREIGN RIGHTS TO ENACT GUN BANS OR STAND-YOUR-GROUND LAWS?
  Ann Tweedy

  This note considers the Second Amendment’s inapplicability to Indian tribes.

• Justice Commentaries
  June 11, 2013 EDT
  THE DOUBLE JEOPARDY CLAUSE, NEWLY DISCOVERED EVIDENCE, AND AN “UNOFFICIAL” EXCEPTION TO DOUBLE JEOPARDY: A COMPARATIVE INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE
  Steven V. DeBraccio

  In the absence of an express statute or constitutional provision permitting re-trials for acquitted defendants, could prosecutors use perjury prosecutions and subsequent civil and forfeiture proceedings used against defendants?

• New York Appeals
  March 03, 2012 EDT
  CIVIL FORFEITURE AS A REMEDY FOR CORRUPTION IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE CONTRACTING IN NEW YORK
  John P. Woods

  This article argues that private sector contract corruption civil penalties are too lax compared to public sector contract corruption civil penalties.