[sytelus]

My only question here is that how this does not violate constitutional rights of citizens for possessing property and having a due process of law? Why Supreme Court has upheld these laws all these years? Wikipedia has good article on civil forfeiture[1] but fails to answer this question. All I can discern from there is that these laws were created 200 years ago to seize ships of owners who can't be prosecuted easily. Apparently supreme court has distinction between criminal forfeiture and civil forfeiture. For the former, due process by a judge is required while for former it's not because a property gets charged for participating in crime instead of a person. This sounds more dumber than "corporation is a person" thing that they rules before. Who is supposed to protect the intent of constitution now?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United...