U.S. v. Plescia, No. 92-1222 (7th Cir.) (48 F.3d 1452) (March 8, 1995) (Judge Albert J. Engel)
In this case, the Court appeared to adopt Justice Scalia's concurring view in Austin v. U.S., 509 U.S. 602, 628 (1993) that in a civil forfeiture proceeding the only inquiry should be upon the connection between the confiscated property and the crime committed, ignoring entirely the relation between the value …
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