Matter of Kaster

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• recognizing that, although forfeiture statutes were not criminal, they were penal in nature and hence strictly construed
• “[I]t appears well settled that [criminal offense] refers to conduct subjecting the offender to imprisonment or fine and includes misdemeanors as well as felonies.”
• “[A] penal statute must satisfy two standards: (1) it must give a person of ordinary intelligence fair notice of what is prohibited, and (2

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).