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Indiana Court Orders Land Rover Returned, Ending Long Legal Battle Over Asset Forfeiture

Indiana Court Orders Land Rover Returned, Ending Long Legal Battle Over Asset Forfeiture
The Indiana Statehouse, which houses the Indiana State Supreme Court, In Indianapolis, Indiana on May 26, 2007. Mark Goebel via Wikimedia Commons/CC BY 2.0
Matthew Vadum
Matthew Vadum
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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 eight-year legal odyssey, the man is entitled to get back his vehicle after it 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.