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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;V. Kurt Bellman, post: 2686147, member: 71723&quot;]Yup. Count me NOT among his fan base. (With more understatement than the wryest of Brits could muster.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Full disclosure: I am a H-U-G-E fan of the en banc 3rd Circuit opinion and the present legal status quo on the 1933 Doubs. It&#039;s a &quot;preponderance&quot; case and not subject to the criminal standard of proof. The U.S should never have been asked to initiate a civil forfeiture for property that was by the preponderance standard the U.S.&#039;s property all along. The normal judicial preference that litigants not engage in self-help should not apply to government property. As the circuit court said, it was a seizure.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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