Court Opinion

ID: 9433352
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 23:39:55.587359+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:23:40.809044
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Justice Scalia,
with whom Justice Thomas joins, concurring in the judgment.
In my view, the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits successive prosecution, not successive punishment. See Department of Revenue of Mont. v. Kurth Ranch, 511 U. S. 767, 798 (1994) (Scalia, J., dissenting). Civil forfeiture proceedings of the sort at issue here are not criminal prosecutions, even under the standard of Kennedy v. Mendoza-Martinez, 372 U. S. 144, 164 (1963), and United States v. Ward, 448 U. S. 242, 248-251 (1980).