Supreme Court refuses to tighten the rules when police seize cars.
The Supreme Court refused on Thursday to give innocent owners of seized cars a right to an immediate hearing to reclaim their vehicles. Instead, the justices in a 6-3 decision said the Constitution requires a 'timely hearing' to consider whether the police had properly arrested the driver and seized the vehicle, but that may take weeks or months. In the interim, the innocent owner may be without their car.
Sutton also had her car returned after she asserted she was the innocent owner. Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented. 'A police officer can seize your car if he claims it is connected to a crime committed by someone else. The police department can then keep the car for months or even years until the State ultimately seeks ownership of it through civil forfeiture.
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