Two years after the U.S. Supreme Court established an important precedent by ruling in Tyson Timbs’s favor, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled last week that after an 8-year legal odyssey the man is entitled to get back his vehicle that was seized when he used it to sell illegal drugs. The case is of legal significance because the nation’s highest court used it to apply the Eighth Amendment’s ban on excessive fines to all U.S. states. In February 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously reversed the Indiana Supreme Court’s finding that the state was entitled to keep a white 2012 Land Rover LR2 he purchased for $42,000 that was confiscated from Timbs when he was arrested in 2013, as The Epoch Times previously reported. Timbs used the vehicle when selling a total of $385 worth of heroin to undercover police. He pled guilty and was sentenced to a year of …
Indiana Court Orders Land Rover Returned, Ending Long Legal Battle Over Asset Forfeiture
June 13, 2021
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