> The car is potentially proceeds of crime The car was reliably documented as being purchased from his father's life insurance proceeds. There was no question

> The car is potentially proceeds of crime The car was reliably documented as being purchased from his father's life insurance proceeds. There was no question of it being potentially purchased by illegal means. Far more importantly, the entire question is irrelevant: we have standardized maximum fines and the burden of proof for very good reasons. Civil forfeiture skips both, making a mockery of the justice system for profit. Those who believe current punishments for a given crime insufficient should seek to alter the law, whereas exorbitant forfeiture devalues the entire purpose - it serves neither as effective discouragement (being utterly arbitrary and unrelated to criminal magnitude) nor to rehabilitate (rather, the reverse, as departing inmates' tendencies to return will only be exacerbated by forfeiture-induced poverty).