Minnesota Cops Can Seize Your Car, Sell It And Keep The Profits, Even If You Did Nothing Wrong

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8. That's a better position than the OP

The Timbs v. Indiana ruling early last year may begin to pull back some excesses (at least the asset seized will have to bear some relationship in value to the crime committed)... but the "even if you did nothing wrong" nonsense is unsupportable.

If she truly did nothing wrong, they couldn't take her car. If she was at home and can truly say that she had no idea he would use the vehicle in the commission of a crime... the law protects her. If witnesses in the bar heard him tell her that he had consumed no alcohol and she had been screaming at him to slow down... even that would probably be enough.

We can say that CAF is wrong (or that it is too often applied incorrectly), but we can't say that she "did nothing wrong". She may not have been charged with a crime, but she should consider herself lucky at that part.