Civil forfeiture is the law, codified in state and federal statutes. The law has to be changed. But other seizures happen without statutory authority or statutory remedy.
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Collateral Consequences — How the Innocent Get Punished Anyway Part II
You can lose your driver’s license and be saddled with a DWI-related offense on your driving record for being charged, even if found not guilty.
Whiskey Plates on a Hummer
When a cop arrests someone for DWI, that person’s driver’s license is revoked more-or-less immediately. If the cop thinks the alleged offense rises to a certain level of severity, the driver’s license plates are removed and destroyed, too. To drive from that point on, the driver has to get “whiskey plates” and he or she has to pay to equip any car he or she might drive with an ignition interlock device that disables the vehicle so it won’t start until the driver blows into a tube proving that his or her breath has no alcohol. This is all for people who are suspected of DWI. They haven’t been convicted yet. They may never be.