{"id":65174,"date":"2026-11-12T12:35:44","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T17:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=65174"},"modified":"2026-11-12T12:35:44","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T17:35:44","slug":"reason-miami-sheriff-hired-a-private-law-firm-to-pursue-and-profit-from-asset-forfeiture-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=65174","title":{"rendered":"Reason: Miami Sheriff Hired a Private Law Firm To Pursue\u2014and Profit From\u2014Asset Forfeiture Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Reason: <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2026\/11\/10\/miami-sheriff-hired-a-private-law-firm-to-pursue-and-profit-from-asset-forfeiture-cases\/\">Miami Sheriff Hired a Private Law Firm To Pursue\u2014and Profit From\u2014Asset Forfeiture Cases<\/a> by C.J. Ciaramella (&#8220;A court appeal challenging the Miami-Dade County sheriff&#8217;s unusual practice of using a private law firm to pursue property seizures on its behalf\u2014and guaranteeing the firm a cut of the proceeds\u2014could change the law surrounding police seizures in Florida and is drawing national attention from think tanks and criminal defense groups. The appeal, brought by a group of Miami-area mobile phone distributors and retailers who had tens of millions of dollars seized by the Miami-Dade County Sheriff&#8217;s Office (MDSO) last year, is the first time Florida state courts have considered whether police departments can pay private law firms on a contingency basis to represent them in civil asset forfeiture cases.\u201d)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reason: Miami Sheriff Hired a Private Law Firm To Pursue\u2014and Profit From\u2014Asset Forfeiture Cases by C.J. Ciaramella (&#8220;A court appeal challenging the Miami-Dade County sheriff&#8217;s unusual practice of using a private law firm to pursue property seizures on its behalf\u2014and &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=65174\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forfeiture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65175,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65174\/revisions\/65175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}