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On October 7, 2011 Forfeiture Endangers American Rights Foundation released a new Ebook, available in all Ebook formats: including Kindle, Nook, Ipad, browser, pdf and online readers. Asset Forfeiture: What to do when police seize your property explains in detail the federal forfeiture process – civil and criminal. It tells how to qualify for a court-appointed attorney, and what to do if you are forced to represent yourself. The book is outlined in a simple question and answer format, with citations to statutes and cases, including links to FEAR's law library and other free internet resources for legal research. It includes a link to a step-by-step video which explains how to prepare a Claim and Answer. Every forfeiture victim needs this book. Criminal defense lawyers need it too, to avoid giving incorrect advice to their clients faced with forfeiture proceedings. Asset forfeiture has risen from an obscure concept in the mid-1980s to a whopping profit-making industry for law enforcement agencies. Over 400 federal statues now trigger forfeiture, and every state has its own statutes as well. These statutes allow police to seize property - not just from criminal defendants, but from third parties such as parents, spouses, landlords, and lien-holders. Because there is no requirement that anyone be charged, much less convicted, large numbers of forfeiture cases are not even connected to a criminal proceeding. The Appendix contains the complete text of several of the most important forfeiture procedural statute. These procedures are explained in the text, with links to the statutes. Buy it now for only $5.99!

Forfeiture victims and forfeiture defense lawyers need this book!  It's big -- 500 pages in 8-1/2 X 11" format, in 11 point type, with  2,629 footnotes.   Even though it was published in January 2002, the law is still up to date.  It's comprehensive. And "it's readable!" -- said attorney Jody Neal-Post.  Forfeiture victims trying to represent themselves pro se need this book -- particularly inmates, who don't have access to adequate research tools.   It's paperback -- and we've never had any trouble getting the prisons to accept copies sent to prisoners -- as long as they're mailed directly from the publisher (FEAR).

To order the manual, buy it online from this website using PayPal, or send a check or money order for $119 plus $12 for postage/handling and sales tax, if applicable to FEAR Manual, 20 Sunnyside, Suite A-419, Mill Valley, CA 94941. (California residents (that is, book orders sent to California addresses) must add appropriate sales tax. Nonprofit organizations and government agencies may avoid paying the sales tax by sending along a photocopy of their state tax exemption notice.)

• An outstanding review by Thomas Daly, Retired Publisher of the El Dorado Gazette, Georgetown Gazette & Town Crier, online here (in PDF format).
• And we are most appreciative of Ronald Bradley's informative review from the Australian perspective.
  

Forfeiture 101 is a Continuing Legal Education DVD course that enables defense attorneys to effectively expand their practices to meet the needs of the vastly increasing number of victims of the government's ever-broadening overreach for assets and money judgments.

Lawyers taking on their first forfeiture case suddenly find that law school never prepared them for the maze of complex proceedings that strictly adhere to Supplemental Rules for Admiralty or Maritime Claims and Asset Forfeiture Actions, further complicated by CAFRA reforms that apply to some forfeiture proceedings and not to others. Forfeiture victims will find this DVD to be a  godsend – especially those forced to represent themselves because they can't afford counsel. This entertaining and informative two-hour DVD serves as a crash (or refresher) course in forfeiture law, as well as an interactive computer research tool.  Pop the DVD in your computer and click the menu for the chapter you need to research. As you listen to a narrative overview of the issues, you can pause at any time and note the case and statute citations that appear on the screen accompanying the narration. Forfeiture 101 is the first in a series of  FEAR's clear, concise and informative DVD courses on substantive forfeiture law and procedure. FEAR's Forfeiture 101: Chapter 1: Dangerous Misconceptions About Forfeiture Chapter 2: Historical Origins of Forfeiture's Quirky Procedures Chapter 3: The Ever-Growing Number of Forfeiture Laws Chapter 4: Defenses Against Forfeiture Chapter 5: Which Track: Civil or Criminal Forfeiture? Chapter 6: Civil Forfeiture: A Torturous, Treacherous Trail Chapter 7: A Fork in the Path:  CAFRA or Customs Procedures? Chapter 8: An Alternate Route: Criminal Forfeiture   © 2009

Or save even more with FEAR's special introductory forfeiture package deal: Forfeiture 101 DVD with Asset Forfeiture Defense Manual, plus a one-year subscription to FEAR's Brief Bank for only $300 plus $12 shipping. (Applicable sales tax will be added to California orders).

FEAR Website Attorney Directory  - (Attorney listings by subscription only)  Free to use, but attorneys must pay a fee to be listed in it ($100 per year usually -- but our free introductory offer has been extended through October 31, 2004.  Sign up now and get the first year free.)

Please print out these FEAR pamphlets, photocopy them and distribute them to your friends, clients, organizations and legislators.

•      The FEAR tri-fold flyer (PDF format!)

•      "What to Do When Your Property has been Seized". Note: This pamphlet has not yet been updated to reflect the recent changes in Federal forfeiture law (CAFRA).

• FEAR Position Paper -- "Federal Forfeiture Laws Need To Be Amended To Restore Due Process And Protect The Property Rights Of Innocent People: F.E.A.R.'s Proposal For Reform," by Brenda Grantland, Esq., Sept. 30, 1992 (partially updated 12-1-98)  This was the model for the California forfeiture reform statute (1994) and the Hyde bill, HR 1658 (which later became CAFRA, though watered down in the process)