Supreme Court to Hear Indiana Civil Asset Forfeiture Case

[Swordsmyth]

Here’s a brief background on the case, as reported by WFYI in Indianapolis:
A Marion [Indiana] resident named Tyson Timbs claims police violated the Eight Amendment’s excessive fines clause when they seized his vehicle – worth more than $40,000 – because he used it to transport a few hundred dollars worth of drugs.
When Tyson Timbs moved to Marion, Indiana a few years ago, he hoped it would be a fresh start.
He'd been living in Ohio and struggling with an opioid addiction for years. When his Aunt Wendy got sick, he decided to move to Indiana to help.
"I actually thought, 'Hey, maybe this is going to be the cure to all my problems,'" Timbs says. "Unfortunately I came with me. So, you know, you can't run from yourself.”
Marion is a small town, and Timbs soon learned who to go to in order to find the drugs he needed to function. He eventually turned to heroin, using some life insurance money from his father's death to cover the costs of his habit.
Timbs also used more than $42,000 from the payout to buy a Land Rover. Court documents say he drove the car to Richmond to buy heroin. And, at least twice, he sold heroin. The buyers were informants and an undercover detective. Court documents say Timbs sold a total of just more than $500 worth of heroin to them.
Police arrested Timbs and took his Land Rover. A couple months after filing felony charges against Timbs, the state started a civil forfeiture case in an attempt to keep Timbs' vehicle.



More at: https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnew...orfeiture-case

[Schifference]

His money would have gone to drugs or drug enforcement either way.

Out of all the cases the court could choose to hear they pick this one. I have read of people traveling to purchase cars, winners coming home from casino's and other totally innocent people that have been robbed via civil asset forfeiture.

Just goes to show you better off to not have things paid for. They cannot civil asset forfeiture a vehicle that has a bigger lien than it is worth or an underwater house.