Date: Wed, 21 Jun 1995 09:26:54 -0700
From: [b--rd--n] at [netcom.com] (David Borden)
Subject: Cato Institute, Rep. Henry Hyde Hold Press Conference on Asset Forfeiture

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                 Drug Reform Coordination Network (DRCNet)
                            Rapid Response Team
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The Cato Institute's Center for Constitutional Studies cordially invites 
you to a Capitol Hill Press Conference.

FORFEITING OUR PROPERTY RIGHTS: IS YOUR PROPERTY SAFE FROM SEIZURE?
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featuring

Representative Henry Hyde
Republican -- Illinois

Across America today, zealous law enforcement officials are seizing 
property ranging from homes and cars to bank accounts and businesses, 
which they then keep on the basis of a legal fiction that the property, 
although often held by an innocent owner, was somehow "guilty" of 
criminal conduct.  To get their property back, owners face an uphill 
battle to prove their innocence -- sometimes without the means, which 
have been seized, to defend themselves.  A new Cato Institute book by 
Rep. Henry Hyde, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, argues that 
today's civil forfeiture laws are undermining our most fundamental 
liberties.  Hyde will soon introduce reform legislation that will, among 
other things, restore the traditional presumption of innocence for 
property owners.

Thursday, June 22, 1995
10:30 a.m.

2141 Rayburn House Office Building
Independence Avenue & South Capitol Street, S.W.
Washington, DC

To register call Scott Wallis at (202) 789-5229, fax him at (202) 
842-3490, or e-mail to [scot t W] at [cato.org.]  News media please call Anna 
McCollister at (202) 789-5225.

Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, DC 20001

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