On this episode of Our American Stories, when Tyson Timbs used his $40,000 Land Rover to sell drugs to an undercover police officer, Indiana seized the vehicle through civil asset forfeiture. Getting it back should have been straightforward. Instead, it took seven years, three trips to the Indiana Supreme Court, and a landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court.
For our Rule of Law series, legal scholar Ilya Somin explains how one man's fight over a single SUV reshaped American law on excessive fines, civil asset forfeiture, and the constitutional limits of government power.
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