Overview of asset forfeiture law in the United States
The development of asset forfeiture law in the United States
Seizing property for forfeiture
Administrative forfeiture under CAFRA
Judicial review of administrative forfeiture
Civil forfeiture of real property
Judicial forfeiture: filing the complaint, claim and answer
Pre-trial procedural issues
Dispositive pre-trial motions
Standing
The forfeiture trial: establishing forfeitability
The innocent owner defense
Post-trial and other issues
Parallel and successive civil and criminal cases
The nature of criminal forfeiture
Indictment
Seizure warrants and pre-trial restraining orders
Guilty pleas and the forfeiture phase of the trial
Preliminary order of forfeiture
The final order of forfeiture and sentencing
The relation-back doctrine and the forfeiture of property transferred to third parties
Substitute assets
The ancillary proceedings
Appeals and miscellaneous post-sentencing topics
Criminal proceeds
Instrumentalities and facilitating property
Forfeiture of property involved in money laundering
The excessive fines clause of the Eighth Amendment
Table of cases.