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Bajakajian tried to take $357,000 in cash out of the United States without completing the necessary paperwork. After his conviction,

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Bajakajian tried to take $357,000 in cash out of the United States without completing the necessary paperwork. After his conviction, the federal government asked the court to order that the entire sum be forfeited, as called for by the federal statute. Would this punitive forfeiture violate the requirements of the excessive fines clause of the Eighth Amendment?

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