How to Get Away With Highway Robbery (civil asset forfeiture)
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1 min readFeb 11, 2019
“What Next” — Slate Magazine
Reporters in South Carolina schlepped to all 46 courthouses in the state to document every civil asset forfeiture case in a three-year period. What they found was an impossibly flawed law that rewards bad police-work.
Guests: Anna Lee, reporter for the Greenville News. Read the paper’s series, TAKEN. David Smith, a lawyer and defender of civil asset forfeiture laws, when properly applied.
Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Jayson De Leon, and Anna Martin.