[tacticalogic]

The owner then must establish that the property is innocent.

How would you suggest that the owner establish the innocence of "the property" in this case? Regardless of wheather the owner is involved or not, "the property" was growing marijuana.

[coloradan]

The land grows marijuana, opium poppies, coca plants, and other prohibited lifeforms. The seas support boats importing the drugs to the US, and the air supports cargo craft doing same. Both the air and the seas also contain detectable amounts of pollen and other traces of these drugs. Therefore, the land, the air, and the seas, indeed the entire earth must be forfeit to the federal government for violation of federal narcotics laws.

[robertpaulsen]

"How would you suggest that the owner establish the innocence of "the property" in this case?"

I don't know. That's three-year-old law. It's not the current federal law.

Besides, he was charged under Texas law, not federal law. Certainly you don't object to the states writing their own asset forfeiture laws, do you?