Pubdate: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 Source: Santa Fe New Mexican (NM) Section: Pg A7, Letters Copyright: 2001 The Santa Fe New Mexican Contact: 202 E Marcy, Santa Fe, N.M. 87501 Fax: (505) 986-3040 Feedback: http://www.sfnewmexican.com/letterstoeditor/submitform.las Website: http://www.sfnewmexican.com/ Author: Martha Nelson, Santa Fe, NM DEPRAVED ON-ACCOUNTA? In the headline article on page A-6 of the Feb. 13 edition about problems related to the war on drugs, you quoted Katharine Huffman as saying "Civil forfeiture is a good example where essentially a person's Constitutional right to due process before depravation of their property is just gone." Is it really necessary for the authorities to deprave (pervert, corrupt) a person's property just because the person has been nabbed for possible illegal drug activity? It seems to me that just depriving a person of property is already a rather severe act! Martha Nelson Santa Fe via e-mail - --- MAP posted-by: Beth