Civil asset forteiture: a few remarks from a systematic-normative perspective
Published 2020-12-08
Keywords
- Extinción de dominio,
- Constitución,
- Propiedad,
- Garantías,
- Razonabilidad
- Asset forfeiture,
- Constitution,
- Property,
- Guarantees,
- Reasonableness
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Copyright (c) 2020 Bryan Weber
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Abstract
The so-called Civil Asset Forfeiture has elicited a great deal of questioning as well as acute critics not only at a regional level, but also in Anglo-Saxon and European communities. Some of them based predominantly on practical reasons, while others relied upon constitutional arguments. Being, as a consequence thereof, extensively ample the space for discussion of such a candent subject, this essay will only be intended to set forth our observations on this matter strictly from a normative perspective, taking therefor into account the institute under examination as it is ruled by the currently-in-force national Forfeiture Statute; setting aside the pragmatic consequences it has throughout the vast number of States that have set it into motion. In this endeavor, in order for us to reach a conclusion, it appears necessary –from our standpoint- to go through synthetic and systematically our Legal System as a whole to be able to point out the juridical validity of the institute in discussion, replying the recurrent arguments uttered against it.
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