Those arguments came as the Indiana Supreme Court again took up the question of whether Tyson Timbs of Marion should be able to get back the vehicle that police seized after his arrest in 2013. Timbs’ case is back before Indiana’s top court because the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in February that the Constitution’s ban on excessive fines applies to the states as well as the federal government. The justices questioned how they should draw the line on considering a seizure as excessive. His biggest loss was the Land Rover he had bought with some of $70,000 in life insurance money he received after his father died. But Indiana’s top court said the U.S. Supreme Court had never before ruled that the Eighth Amendment’s ban on excessive fines applies to states.

Source: thestar June 28, 2019 21:45 UTC