National Spotlight on Civil Asset Forfeiture

<img src="http://www.forensicmag.com/sites/forensicmag.com/files/sextoyML.JPG" align="right">One Michigan medical marijuana patient claims that law enforcement officers “took everything” from her in a drug raid last year, including TVs and her vibrator, and is speaking out against the Michigan civil asset forfeiture law that made it possible.

Ginnifer Hency spoke before a Michigan judiciary hearing in May explaining that even though she has been cleared of any wrongdoing by the judge in her case, she has still has not been able to retrieve her possessions in over 10 months.

“My ladders, my iPads, my children’s iPads, my children’s phones, my medicine for my patients,” Hency told a house judiciary meeting in May. “Why a ladder? Why my vibrator? I don’t know either. Why TVs?”

Civil asset forfeiture is the legal process that permits state and federal agencies to seize assets from individuals suspected of illegal activity without ever charging the owners with wrongdoing.
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