1. The Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act of 2000 (CAFRA) authorizes the district court to appoint counsel for indigent claimants in all federal civil forfeiture actions.
 True.
False.

2. Civil forfeiture actions are quasi-criminal and therefore claimants have a Sixth Amendment right to counsel.
 True.
False.

3. Civil forfeiture claimants may obtain a pretrial release of seized property if they can show that there is a likelihood that they will prevail at trial.
 True.
False.

4. The Fifth Amendment’s double jeopardy clause does not apply to federal civil forfeiture actions.
 True.
False.

5. In a federal civil forfeiture action in which the property at issue consists of money in a bank account, the government need not prove that the money in the account is exactly the same money involved in the offense that is the basis for the forfeiture.
 True.
False.

6. A one-year statute of limitations applies if the property to be seized in a federal civil forfeiture action is cash that is not directly traceable to the offense that is the basis for the forfeiture.
 True.
False.

7. Claimants must file a cost bond if they seek to contest a federal civil forfeiture action.
 True.
False.

8. If the government’s theory in a federal civil forfeiture action is that the seized property facilitated a criminal offense, the government must show that there is a substantial connection between the property and the offense in order to prevail in a federal civil forfeiture action.
 True.
False.

9. Once a claim for seized property is filed, the government has 90 days within which to file a federal civil forfeiture action.
 True.
False.

10. Before CAFRA, claimants had to prove that their property was not subject to forfeiture in order to prevail in a federal civil forfeiture action.
 True.
False.

11. In some cases, property that is intended to be used in future crimes may be subject to forfeiture in a federal civil forfeiture action.
 True.
False.

12. CAFRA permits an attorney for the government to use grand jury information without a court order.
 True.
False.

13. The district court must stay a civil forfeiture proceeding if it determines that civil discovery will adversely affect the government’s ability to conduct a related criminal investigation.
 True.
False.

14. The district court may require claimants to post a bond in order to obtain a pretrial hardship release of their property.
 True.
False.

15. A claimant who substantially prevails in a forfeiture action may recover the attorney’s fees incurred in litigating the action.
 True.
False.

16. CAFRA codifies the Eight Amendment’s prohibition against excessive fines.
 True.
False.

17. Whether a forfeiture is grossly disproportional to the gravity of the underlying offense is a factual issue that can be determined by a jury.
 True.
False.

18. In order for claimants to successfully assert an "innocent owner" defense, claimants bear the burden of proving they did not know about the conduct giving rise to the forfeiture.
 True.
False.

19. In a suit brought under any civil forfeiture statute, the government has the burden to establish, by a preponderance of the evidence, that the property at issue is subject to forfeiture.
 True.
False.

20. A federal civil forfeiture complaint must include facts about the crime giving rise to the forfeiture and describe with reasonable particularity the property to be forfeited.
 True.
False.

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