{"id":1051,"date":"2018-05-17T16:16:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T16:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/2018\/05\/17\/property-rights-trend-tx-attorney-general-opinion-civil-asset-forfeiture-funds-3-facts-no-fluff-be-informed\/"},"modified":"2018-05-17T16:16:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T16:16:00","slug":"property-rights-trend-tx-attorney-general-opinion-civil-asset-forfeiture-funds-3-facts-no-fluff-be-informed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/property-rights-trend-tx-attorney-general-opinion-civil-asset-forfeiture-funds-3-facts-no-fluff-be-informed\/","title":{"rendered":"Property Rights TREND. TX Attorney General Opinion. Civil Asset Forfeiture Funds. 3 Facts. No Fluff. Be informed."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasattorneygeneral.gov\/opinions\/opinions\/51paxton\/op\/2018\/kp0200.pdf?utm_content=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_name=&amp;utm_source=govdelivery&amp;utm_term=\">KP-0200 (2018 | TX)<\/a>\u00a0the Texas Attorney General answered this question:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div title=\"Page 1\">\n<p>whether an attorney representing the State may use civil asset forfeiture funds accrued under article 59.06(c)(l) of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure to insure real property forfeited to the State<\/p>\n<p><strong>Can civil asset forfeiture funds be used for insurance for the forfeited property?<\/strong>\u00a0Probably yes<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why is this use of forfeiture funds permitted when it isn&#8217;t on the statutory list of uses?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>TEX. CODE CRIM. PROC.\u00a0art. 59.06(d-4) allows use\u00a0of these funds that preserve, administer or enforce state law<\/li>\n<li>Buying insurance helps the state if it wins or loses in court.\n<ul>\n<li>it protects the assets if the state wins<\/li>\n<li>it mitigagtes losses if the state loses in court<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div title=\"Page 2\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasattorneygeneral.gov\/opinions\/opinions\/51paxton\/op\/2018\/kp0200.pdf?utm_content=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_name=&amp;utm_source=govdelivery&amp;utm_term=\">KP-0200 (2018 | TX)<\/a>\u00a0the Texas Attorney General answered this question:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div title=\"Page 1\">\n<p>whether an attorney representing the State may use civil asset forfeiture funds accrued under article 59.06(c)(l) of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure to insure real property forfeited to the State<\/p>\n<p><strong>Can civil asset forfeiture funds be used for insurance for the forfeited property?<\/strong>\u00a0Probably yes<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why is this use of forfeiture funds permitted when it isn&#8217;t on the statutory list of uses?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>TEX. CODE CRIM. PROC.\u00a0art.\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-attorney-general","category-civil-asset-forfeiture","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}