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Second Circuit Establishes Property Seizure Standards for Civilly Committed Persons
Loaded on Sept. 15, 2013
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2013, page 36
As a matter of first impression, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals has undertaken a Fourth Amendment balancing analysis with regard to the right of a civilly committed person to be free from unreasonable seizures under the Fourth Amendment.Karl Ahlers, a convicted sex offender, was civilly committed by the ...
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