{"id":64178,"date":"2026-06-04T10:17:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T15:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64178"},"modified":"2026-06-05T10:18:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T15:18:26","slug":"reason-most-civil-forfeiture-victims-never-see-the-inside-of-a-courtroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64178","title":{"rendered":"Reason: Most Civil Forfeiture Victims Never See the Inside of a Courtroom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Reason: <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2026\/06\/05\/most-civil-forfeiture-victims-never-see-the-inside-of-a-courtroom\/\">Most Civil Forfeiture Victims Never See the Inside of a Courtroom<\/a> by J.D. Tuccille (\u201cModest reforms have helped, but civil forfeiture remains legalized theft by government agencies.\u201d \u201cTwo years ago, the Netflix film Rebel Ridge turned a common law enforcement tactic into a cinematic study of injustice. In fictionalized form, the movie brought home to audiences the reality that civil asset forfeiture is nothing more than legalized theft. Unfortunately, as documented in a recent Institute for Justice (I.J.) report, while several states have sought to reform the use of civil forfeiture, it remains a source of profit for many law enforcement agencies and a cause of grief to unlucky victims who rarely get to argue their cases in a courtroom \u2026 &#8216;Most forfeitures never reach a courtroom, available data show. For example, in a large sample of Indiana cases, just 4% were decided by a judge. Instead, forfeiture typically happens by default,&#8217; the recent report notes.\u201d)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reason: Most Civil Forfeiture Victims Never See the Inside of a Courtroom by J.D. Tuccille (\u201cModest reforms have helped, but civil forfeiture remains legalized theft by government agencies.\u201d \u201cTwo years ago, the Netflix film Rebel Ridge turned a common law &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64178\">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-64178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forfeiture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64179,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64178\/revisions\/64179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}