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Constitutional Law Keyed to Choper
Timbs v. Indiana
Citation:
586 U.S. 146 (2019)Facts
Tyson Timbs pleaded guilty in Indiana state court to dealing in a controlled substance and conspiracy to commit theft. He was sentenced to one year of home detention, five years of probation (including a court-supervised addiction treatment program), and ordered to pay fees and costs totaling $1,203. At the time of his arrest, police seized his Land Rover SUV, which Timbs had purchased for approximately $42,000 using money received from his father’s life insurance policy. The State of Indiana, through a private law firm, initiated civil forfeiture proceedings against the vehicle, claiming it had been used to transport heroin. The trial court found that while the vehicle had been used to facilitate a criminal violation, its forfeiture would be grossly disproportionate to Timbs’s offense, as the vehicle was worth more than four times the maximum $10,000 fine assessable for his drug conviction.
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