{"id":897,"date":"2017-09-25T16:12:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T16:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/2017\/09\/25\/legal-trend-asset-forfeiture-of-vehicles-unconstitutional\/"},"modified":"2017-09-25T16:12:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T16:12:00","slug":"legal-trend-asset-forfeiture-of-vehicles-unconstitutional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/legal-trend-asset-forfeiture-of-vehicles-unconstitutional\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal trend. Asset Forfeiture of Vehicles Unconstitutional."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge in Indiana has ruled that seizing cars with civil forfeiture is an unconstitutional violation of due process and the 5th and 14th amendments to the U.S. Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>The court stressed the hardship of losing one&#8217;s car for months without a conviction.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ecf.insd.uscourts.gov\/cgi-bin\/show_public_doc?12016cv2980-61\">Southern District of Indiana\u00a0No. 1:16-cv-02980-JMS-DML\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/instituteforjustice\/2017\/08\/31\/federal-judges-rules-indiana-seizing-cars-with-civil-forfeiture-is-unconstitutional\/#651b1fc3da59\">Institute for Justice via Forbes |\u00a0Federal Judge Rules Indiana Seizing Cars With Civil Forfeiture Is Unconstitutional<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge in Indiana has ruled that seizing cars with civil forfeiture is an unconstitutional violation of due process and the 5th and 14th amendments to the U.S. Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>The court stressed the hardship of losing one&#8217;s car for months without a conviction.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ecf.insd.uscourts.gov\/cgi-bin\/show_public_doc?12016cv2980-61\">Southern District of Indiana\u00a0No. 1:16-cv-02980-JMS-DML\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/instituteforjustice\/2017\/08\/31\/federal-judges-rules-indiana-seizing-cars-with-civil-forfeiture-is-unconstitutional\/#651b1fc3da59\">Institute for Justice via Forbes |\u00a0Federal Judge Rules Indiana Seizing Cars With Civil Forfeiture Is Unconstitutional<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,45,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-legislative-issues","category-civil-asset-forfeiture","category-legal-trend","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}