Index to FEAR's Asset Forfeiture Defense Manual, Volumes 1 & 2

Revised 4/22/02 by L. Felkins

Note: This index includes topics that will be covered in volume 2, which is still being written. Any section numbers in chapters 00 through 11 are in volume 1. (The chapter number is the first two digits of the section number.) If the issue you're trying to research is in volume 2, you might be able to find something about it in Appendix 1 (CAFRA digested by key word) or Appendix 3 (Glossary) - both of which appear at the end of volume 1.
 

 

Key word topics

Section

1984 and the War on Drugs

01A03d

5 year statute of limitations

06D01

Abuses CAFRA did not address

00A03

Administrative Claim & Cost Bond, Summary Forfeiture

10

Administrative forfeiture

11A

Administrative forfeiture - deadline for notice

09C02c

Administrative forfeiture - dollar limit

09C01

Administrative forfeiture - judicial review

11A08

Administrative forfeiture proceedings deprive court of jurisdiction over motions for return of property

06C04.

Administrative Procedures Act

10B04b

Admiralty rules

00D02

Affirmative defenses

13B02

Aiding and abetting

02A03a

Amendment to pleadings

13D

American Civil War Confiscation Acts

01A02d

Answer

13B

Answer - deadline for filing

13B01

Answer - in general

13B01

Answer - service of

13B06

Appeal

22H

Appeal - final judgment rule

22H

Appeal - government's right to

22H

Appeal - IFP

22H

Appeal - jurisdiction of district court

22H

Appeal - matters not raised below

22H02

Appeal - new rules

22H

Appeal - notice of

22H

Appeal - standards of review

22H02

Appeal, interlocutory

19K04

Applicability of CAFRA to Patriot Act forfeitures

00C02

Applicability of the Bill of Rights to forfeitures

01D

Applicability of the entrapment defense in civil forfeiture cases

06E05

Arrest of property

12C01

Article III standing

05A01

Asset restraining orders under CAFRA

08D06

Attempted crimes

02A03b

Attorney - court appointment of

15A

Attorney fees forfeiture

15X

Attorney, release of funds for

15D

Attorney's fee award

24

Attorney's fee award - Hyde amendment

24C

Attorney's fees - "takings" cases

24D

Attorney's fees - CAFRA

24A

Attorney's fees - circumstances render award unjus

24B03

Attorney's fees - Civil Rights Act

24E

Attorney's fees - continency fee agreement

24H04

Attorney's fees - Federal Tort Claims Act

24F

Attorney's fees - fees for fee litigation

24H05

Attorney's fees - lodestar

24H02

Attorney's fees - lodestar enhancements

24H03

Attorney's fees - petition & documentation

24H01

Attorney's fees - prevailing party

24B01

Attorney's fees - restraining orders

08D04

Attorney's fees - Rule 11

24G

Attorney's fees - substantially justified

24B02

Austin: Forfeitures that “serve in part to punish” trigger 8th Amendment proportionality requirement

01D03

Bank fraud

02E03

Bank Secrecy Act

17A01c

Bankruptcy fraud - 18 U.S.C. § 152

02E04

Basic forfeiture theories and concepts

03

Bennis v. Michigan: the Supreme Court abandons innocent owners

04A

Biblical origin

01A01a

Bifurcated trial (criminal forfeiture)

21E01

Bill of attainder - Defense that doesn’t work

06J02

Boyd: constitutional implications of the quasi-criminal nature of forfeitures

01D01

Burden of proof

21C01

CAFRA

00A

CAFRA -  “Relaxing” the government’s statute of limitations

00A02d

CAFRA - "Customs carve-out"

00B01

CAFRA - abolishes the cost bond in most forfeiture cases

00A01a

CAFRA - Abolition of federal adoption of state forfeitures

00A03c

CAFRA - allows suits for damages to property while detained

00A01e

CAFRA - allows the court to appoint counsel for some indigent claimants

00A01c

CAFRA - applicability

00B

CAFRA - described

00A01

CAFRA - effective date

00B02

CAFRA - Enforcement of foreign forfeiture judgment

00A02a

CAFRA - expanded forfeiture powers for law enforcement

00A02

CAFRA - Lack of oversight over forfeiture programs

00A03b

CAFRA - legislative history

00A

CAFRA - lengthens claimants’ deadlines and imposes some deadlines on the government

00A01f

CAFRA - Mandatory waiver of foreign bank secrecy rights

00A02c

CAFRA - Penalties for secreting assets to avoid seizure

00A02b

CAFRA - property to be returned to owner pending trial on showing of substantial hardship

00A01d

CAFRA - puts the burden of proof on the government

00A01b

CAFRA - Reports to Congress

00A03b

CAFRA - Requirement of a criminal conviction

00A03d

CAFRA - resolving conflicts with other laws

00D01

CAFRA - Statutory procedures

00D01

CAFRA - summary of provisions

00A01

CAFRA - Taking the income away from the police

00A03a

CAFRA - why it was passed

00A

CAFRA repealed “willful blindness” as a substitute for actual knowledge

04B05

CAFRA says owner may show lack of knowledge or consent

04B03

CAFRA’s effect on innocent spouses, dependants and heirs

04B02

CAFRA’s effect on marital property interests

05D02a

CAFRA’s innocent owner requirements

04B01

CAFRA’s uniform innocent owner defense

04B

CAFRA's Landlord innocent owner defense

04B04

Cash & Monetary Instrument Reports (CMIRs)

02G02

Cash “furnished or intended to be furnished”

03C02d

Catch-all forfeiture statutes §§ 981-982

02B

Civil forfeiture

01B02

Civil forfeiture for drug offenses – 21 U.S.C. § 881

02C01

Civil forfeiture judgment

21G

Civil forfeiture vs. criminal forfeiture

01B

Civil rights challenges to forfeiture procedures

23D

Claim, administrative (summary)

10A

Claim, late filing

13A01c

Claim, verified/judicial

13A

Claimant

99

Closing arguments

21X

Code of Federal Regulations (CFRs)

00D08

Collateral attacks on forfeitures

23

Collateral estoppel

20

Comingling

03B02

Commenced, defined

00B02

Complaint - "commences" judicial action

12A

Complaint - deadlines for filing

12A02b

Complaint - description of property

12B01b

Complaint - particularity (fraud)

12B02b

Complaint - particularity (Rule E)

12B02a

Complaint - probable cause

12B01c

Complaint - verification (rule C)

12B01a

Complaint for judicial forfeiture, generally

12A

Computer fraud - 18 U.S.C. § 1030

02E06

Confrontation clause

21D01

Consent where owner had knowledge

04B03

Consequences of failure to timely file a claim

10C

Consolidation of cases

19I02

Conspiracy

02A03c

Constitution of the United States

00D07

Constitutional issues regarding the remission/mitigation process

11B

Constructive trust

05D02e02

Continuing Criminal Enterprise (CCE)

02C02b

Contraband

03A

Corporation and business partners as owner

05D01

Cost bond

10B

Cost bond refund

22C

Costs

22D

Counterclaims

13B03

Credit card fraud - 18 U.S.C. § 1029

02E05

Criminal forfeiture

01B01

Criminal forfeiture details of 21 U.S.C. § 853

02C02a

Criminal forfeiture provisions of the drug laws

02C02

Cross-claim

13B03

Cross-examination

21X

Currency Transaction Reports (CTRs)

02G01

Customs forfeitures

02H

Damages to property while detained

22G

Deadlines for motions/pleadings

19A

Declaratory judgment

99

Default judgment

14C

Defenses that don’t work

06J

Deliberate ignorance

04B05

Deodands

01A01b03

Depositions

18C04

Depositions - criminal

17B05

Disclosures - FRCvP 26

18A

Discovery - Brady material

17B03

Discovery - civil

18

Discovery - criminal

17B

Discovery - duty to supplement

18A05

Discovery - F.R.Cr.P. 16

17B01

Discovery - motion to compel

18F01

Discovery - objections to

18D

Discovery - protective order

18D04

Discovery - protective order

18F02

Discovery - sanctions

18F02

Discovery objections - tax returns &private papers

18D03c

Dismissal of action

19B04

Dismissal of indictment

19G

Does CAFRA’s innocent owner defense apply to all federal forfeiture statutes?

04C

Dog sniff

07A04d

Double jeopardy - Defense that doesn’t work

06J01

Drug courier profile

07A04d

Drug offense forfeiture

02C

Early-American forfeiture law

01A02c

Effect of assertion of Fifth Amendment

05C04

Eighth Amendment’s Excessive Fines Clause

06A

Elements of RICO criminal offense

02I01

Elements of the offense

02A02

England’s Navigation Acts

01A01c

English common law and forfeiture

01A01b

Entrapment

06E

Entrapment by estoppel

06E04

Equal Access to Justice Act ("EAJA")

24B

Equitable interests that may confer standing

05D07

Equitable remedies

23A03

Equitable remedies may give spouses a vested interest in marital property

05D02e

Evidence - objections

21C05

Evidence - official records

21X

Evidence - prior testimony

21X

Evidence - privilege

18D02

Evidence - privilege

21C03

Evidence required to submit the entrapment defense to the jury

06E01

Ex parte seizure warrant

08C02

Ex post facto

06G02

Exclusionary rule

07A01

Execution of warrant

07A03e

Exemplars

17A01f

Exigent circumstances

07A04e

Exigent circumstances

07A04e

Expedited release

16B

Expert witness - admissibility

21C04

Expert witness - discovery

18A03

Facilitation

03C

Facilitation, defined

03C01.

False affidavit (Franks)

07A03c

False entry with intent to defraud a bank – 18 U.S.C. § 1006

02F02

False statement on a loan application - 18 U.S.C. § 1014

02F01

False statement to a government agency - 18 U.S.C. § 1001

02F03

False statement to loan officer/gov. official

02F

Federal adoption

06C03

Federal rules of civil procedure

00D03

Federal rules of criminal procedure

00D04

Federal Tort Claims Act

23F

Federal vs. state law

00D06

Fifth amendment "takings" clause

06H

Fifth Amendment “takings” of property without just compensation

01D06

Fifth amendment privilege

18D03

Final order of forfeiture

22A02

Financial records

02E

Financial records

17A01c

Financial records

17C01

Financial transaction reporting violations

02G

Financial transaction to promote unlawful activity – 18 U.S.C. § 1956(a)(1)(A)

02D01

Fines & forfeitures

21F

Firearms forfeiture

02L

Forfeiture comes to America

01A02

Forfeiture comes to America: Colonial times

01A02a

Forfeiture comes to America: The American Revolution

01A02b

Forfeiture of estate, “attainder” in English Common Law

01A01b01

Fourth Amendment

07

Fourth Amendment - airport search

07A04d

Fourth Amendment - arrest

07A04a

Fourth Amendment - arrest warrant

07A04a

Fourth Amendment - automobile exception

07A04c

Fourth Amendment - border search

07A04d

Fourth Amendment - challenging warrant

07A03

Fourth Amendment - checkpoints

07A04d

Fourth Amendment - consent search

07A04g

Fourth Amendment - containers

07A02

Fourth Amendment - curtilage

07A02

Fourth Amendment - effect of illegal seizure

07A01

Fourth Amendment - flyovers

07A04h

Fourth Amendment - Franks

07A03c

Fourth Amendment - fruit of poisonous tree

07C

Fourth Amendment - good faith exception

07A03d

Fourth Amendment - hot pursuit

07A04e

Fourth Amendment - inevitable discovery

07A04h

Fourth Amendment - informant's tip

07A03a01

Fourth Amendment - inventory search

07A04c

Fourth Amendment - knock & announce

07A03e

Fourth Amendment - open fields

07A02

Fourth Amendment - plain view

07A04f

Fourth Amendment - pretext search

07A04c

Fourth Amendment - probable cause

07A03a

Fourth Amendment - search incident to arrest

07A04a

Fourth Amendment - search warrants

07A03

Fourth Amendment - standing

07A02

Fourth Amendment - suppression hearing

19F02

Fourth amendment - suppression motions

19F01

Fourth Amendment - Terry stop

07A04b

Fourth Amendment - thermal imaging

07A02

Fourth Amendment - traffic stop

07A04c

Fourth Amendment - waiver

07A04g

Fourth Amendment - warrantless seizures

07A04

Fraud

02E

Frivolous claims, penalty for

13A03

Fugitive disentitlement

03F

Gambling forfeiture

02K

General principles

02A

Gifts: must owner be a “bona fide purchaser for value” to have standing?

05C06

Government misconduct

06F

Government’s failure to provide notice

09F

Grand jury

17A01a

Grand jury disclosure

17A01a

Grand jury secrecy

17A01a

Grand jury subpoenas

17A01f

Gross income or net profit?

03B03

Guilty plea - withdrawing

19M01

Guilty pleas

19M

Guilty pleas forfeiting property

19M

Hearsay

21C02

Hearsay - conspirator statement

21C02b01

History of forfeiture

01A

Homestead laws

05D02f

Immigration forfeiture

02J

Immunity from prosecution

18D03d02

Important Supreme Court cases from the past decade

01C

Improper inducement by government agents

06E02

In forma pauperis  - How to apply for IFP treatment

10B04a

In forma pauperis  - Review of unfavorable IFP decision

10B04b

In forma pauperis requests to waive the cost bond

10B04

In personam jurisdiction

06C02

In rem jurisdiction

06C02

Indictment

12D

Indictment, forfeiture counts in

12D

Ineffectiveness of counsel

15A02

Informant rewards - for testifying

06F04

Informants - in general

17A01b

Informants - privilege

18D10

Informants - revealing identity

17B04

Innocent owner defense

04

Innocent spouses with their names on the title to the property

05D02b

Innocent third parties in criminal forfeiture cases

04E

Interest on seized currency

22E

Interlocutory sale

16D

Interrogatories

18C01

Intervention

14E

Jencks Act

17B02

Joinder

12A03

Joint & several liability

03E

Judgment

21G

Judgment notwithstanding verdict

21D03

Judicial forfeiture notice requirements

09E

Judicial forfeiture process

12

Jurisdiction - conflict between state & fed

06C03

Jurisdiction over subject matter

06C01

Jurisdiction, lack of - in general

06C

Jury - special interrogatories

21F

Jury demand

13B04

Jury instructions

21F

Jury selection

21X

Jury trials - right to

21B

Jury verdict

21F

Kennedy & Ward: “Civil” or “criminal” label as defining rights

01D02

Laches

23A03

Laundering Monetary Instruments – 18 U.S.C. § 1956(a)(1)(B)

02D02

Laundering of monetary instruments - 18 U.S.C. § 1956(a)(3)(A)-(B)

02D05

Law of the case

19K03

Legal fictions

01A

Leon “good faith” exception

07A03d

Lienholder remedies

05D06a

Limits on in personam jurisdiction

06C06

Limits on in rem jurisdiction