The Economist has an article on the scandal of civil asset forfeiture in the United States, where you can have your property, including cash, seized by the government on the premise that it was either involved in the commission of a crime or was obtained through the commission of a crime -- without ever bothering to even charge you with a crime, much less convict you of one.
For more, see The Economist on Asset Forfeiture by Ed Brayton, June 11, 2010, at scienceblogs.com.
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