Waller v. Powers Department Store

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• Whether a particular statutorily defined penalty is civil or criminal is a matter of statutory construction.
• forfeiture proceeding is a civil action and when brought prior or subsequent to criminal proceeding does not involve the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment or the Maryland common law double jeopardy prohibition

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).