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From: "Leon F." <leonf@perspicuity.net>
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>From: "Erne Lewis" <ernelewis@attbi.com>

>To: "Erne Lewis" <ernelewis@attbi.com>

>Subject: civil asset forfeiture legislation

>Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 13:41:27 -0800

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>We have been very busy on the legislative front.

>

>Senator Dan Swecker and Representative Cheryl Pflug have filed companion 

>bills that are identical in language to Initiative 256, the Innocent 

>Property Owners Protection Initiative. Senators Tim Sheldon, Harold 

>Hochstatter, Bob Oke, and Val Stevens are co-sponsors of the Senate bill. 

>Representatives Toby Nixon, Tom Campbell and others will co-sponsor the 

>House bill.

>

>Senator Jeanne Kohl-Welles and several co-sponsors have also filed a bill 

>that is similar in many respects to the initiative but with some 

>significant differences. We believe the Swecker / Pflug bills are superior 

>to the Kohl-Wells bill but if either passes they will be extremely 

>positive changes for the better.

>

>Another bill has been introduced in the House by Representatives Mary Lou 

>Dickerson, Hans Dunshee, and Bill Grant. It is in one important way a much 

>better bill.  It moves the language requiring "criminal conviction before 

>assets may be forfeited" to Chapter 10, which means that it applies to all 

>asset forfeiture not just drug-related civil asset forfeiture. It also 

>places in Chapter 10 the requirement that "forfeiture must be 

>proportionate to the crime committed" and "clear and compelling evidence"

>

>Please help me there by contacting your Senator and Representatives and 

>encouraging them to support the strongest possible reform of asset forfeiture.



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