context: . We also note that the stay of a civil forfeiture action where there is a related criminal action often can serve to benefit criminal defendants who are claimants to the property that is the subject of the civil forfeiture action; the stay in the civil case prevents the government from using civil discovery as a means to obtain information to flesh out the criminal case against the claimants.
citation_a.signal: see also
citation_a.identifier: 781 F.Supp. 830, 834-35
citation_a.parenthetical: granting a stay of discovery in a civil forfeiture action to protect a criminal defendant's Fifth Amendment rights
citation_a.sentence: See Afro-Lecon, Inc. v. United States, 820 F.2d 1198, 1203 (Fed.Cir.1987) ("The broad scope of civil discovery may present to both the prosecution, and at times the criminal defendant, an irresistible temptation to use that discovery to one's advantage in the criminal case.”); see also United States v. A Certain Parcel of Land, 781 F.Supp. 830, 834-35 (D.N.H.1992) (granting a stay of discovery in a civil forfeiture action to protect a criminal defendant's Fifth Amendment rights).
citation_b.signal: see
citation_b.identifier: 820 F.2d 1198, 1203
citation_b.parenthetical: "The broad scope of civil discovery may present to both the prosecution, and at times the criminal defendant, an irresistible temptation to use that discovery to one's advantage in the criminal case."
citation_b.sentence: See Afro-Lecon, Inc. v. United States, 820 F.2d 1198, 1203 (Fed.Cir.1987) ("The broad scope of civil discovery may present to both the prosecution, and at times the criminal defendant, an irresistible temptation to use that discovery to one's advantage in the criminal case.”); see also United States v. A Certain Parcel of Land, 781 F.Supp. 830, 834-35 (D.N.H.1992) (granting a stay of discovery in a civil forfeiture action to protect a criminal defendant's Fifth Amendment rights).