There should be no civil asset forfeiture without a conviction for related crimes. None. If that means the bad guys get to keep their loot so the good guys don’t have to endure a grabby government (and it just hasn’t been shown that any government won’t get grabby given the option to be so) then so be it.
There should also be no ordinary civil liability for any situation where the underlying issue is a crime without a conviction for that crime first. Yes, that would mean OJ would have truly walked but is it really the function of our system to make sure someone can extract their pound of flesh however they may?
Agreed.