For years, IJ has led the fight against civil forfeiture. But our latest case shows what civil forfeiture looks like when IJ isn’t involved and how unfair procedural rules can deprive innocent people of their hard-earned money. Now we are working to change those rules, to give forfeiture victims a fighting chance even when they don’t initially have IJ on their side. Those victims include Cristal Starling, a resident of Rochester, New York, who has cared for her 6-year-old grandnephew since he was a baby.
