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Sunday, August 07, 2011
Ind. Courts - "Old drug forfeiture cases never die, nor fade away"
An article by Ball State prof Larry Riley in the Sunday Muncie Star-Press, relating the circumstances of one "drug forfeiture" case in Delaware County, tells a fairly incredible but true tale that begins:
Drug forfeiture cases from years past just keep resurrecting themselves in Delaware County.We experienced a litany of local forfeitures of money and property by defendants following drug-related arrests and seizures from the mid-1990s until the process was ordered changed by Delaware County judges in 2008.
Meanwhile, unfinished -- or sometimes seemingly finished -- cases keep coming up, and one has emerged in a novel way.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on August 7, 2011 12:24 PM
Posted to Indiana Courts