Dallas - Ft. Worth DWI Attorney

The Law Offices of David Sloane are one of the few Criminal Defense attorneys in Dallas/Fort Worth, Tarrant County and the surrounding area that defends against State and Federal asset forfeitures resulting from allegations of criminal conduct or criminal charges being brought.  In general, Asset Forfeiture is a term used to describe the confiscation of assets, by the government which are either alleged to be the proceeds of crime or (b) the instrumentalities of crime, and more recently, terrorism. Instrumentalities of crime are property that was used to facilitate crime, for example cars used to transport illegal narcotics, money used to purchase them, or the proceeds realized from the activity. The trend towards civil forfeiture the government alleges has in part been prompted by the nature of organized crime. In passing these laws the government alleged organized crime heads use their resources to keep themselves distant from the crimes that they control and to mask the criminal origins of their assets. For this reason it has become extremely difficult to carry out successful criminal investigations leading to the prosecution and conviction of such individuals. They claim striking at the profit motives of their so-called criminal king-pins will stop stop those engaging in organized crime and serve as a deterrent to others. However, there are widespread abuses of these laws by prosecutors and others in law enforcement including instances in Dallas/Fort Worth. Property is now being seized from every social group. Seizures include cars, phones and pocket money confiscated from arrested individuals; and homes taken away from ordinary, middle class Americans whose teenage children are accused of selling a few joints of marijuana. No person and no property is immune from seizure. The law offices of David Sloane aggressively defends against civil and criminal asset forfeitures in conjunction with the criminal defense of the individual accused. The volume and complexity of the legal work involved in defending against asset forfeitures has many criminal defense lawyers ’taking the meat and leaving the feathers’ with their clients by agreeing to take-on the underlying criminal case but refusing to defend against the asset forfeiture. Please do not contact us about defending your assets against forfeiture if you have hired and intend to keep another attorney you have hired to defend you.