There is more work for everyone else. The
flip side of the last point, of course, is that the
effort saved by the criminal prosecutor is offset
by the additional work that must be done by
everyone else when handling a forfeiture
separately as a civil matter, instead of as part of a
pending criminal case. A civil forfeiture requires
the filing of a separate action and relitigating all
of the issues that were litigated in the criminal
case, making work for a civil specialist, the
support staff, and the court.