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Comment by marcosdumay

17 hours ago

Are you trying to say that most countries have something similar to civil asset forfeiture?

If so, that's absolutely wrong.

Yes that's my claim, as defined in Mexican law since that's more like most countries' legal systems.

I don't know so my claim is weak, my Wikipedia articles on non-US legal systems is extremely slow going, and I have not written articles on this particular topic outside the US. :( The real basis of my claim is that most of the world would be expected to have judicial procedures for seizing assets more akin to our CAF. What the US considers reduced rights, like no jury trial, is just how things are elsewhere. (Ain't no one with a right to a jury trial anywhere in the world ever gonna choose a bench trial, it's that much of a difference.)