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The Supreme Court refuses to tighten the rules when police seize cars.
A divided Supreme Court ruled Thursday that authorities do not have to provide a quick hearing when they seize cars and other property used in drug crimes, even when the property belongs to so ...
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday reinforced the power of law enforcement authorities to retain seized property belonging to people not charged with a crime, ruling in favor of Alabama officials ...
Seized assets can be used for police office expenses and new equipment such as vehicles. [24] The profit motive, in which police can keep 90% or more of profits, "forms the rotten core of forfeiture abuse". [7]
Case history; Prior: People v. Acevedo, 216 Cal.App.3d 586, 265 Cal.Rptr. 23 (App. 4th Dist. 1989): Holding; Police, in a search extending only to a container within an automobile, may search the container without a warrant where they have probable cause to believe that it holds contraband or evidence.
Therefore, they found probable cause to subject his vehicle to forfeiture under the Florida Contraband Forfeiture Act. Two months later, White was arrested on unrelated charges, where officers seized his car without a warrant. A later inventory of the vehicle revealed two pieces of crack cocaine in the ashtray.
On days their car needed a cleaning, it was Arlene Branham’s late husband who used to take it to the local car wash. But in July, the 78-year-old attempted the task herself for the first time.
San Francisco Police searching a vehicle after a stop in 2008. The motor vehicle exception is a legal rule in the United States that modifies the normal probable cause requirement of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution and, when applicable, allows a police officer to search a motor vehicle without a search warrant.