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STATE v. CATLETT

No. 64266-4.

945 P.2d 700 (1997)

133 Wash.2d 355

STATE of Washington, Petitioner, v. Mary Catherine CATLETT, aka Mary C. Plata, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Washington.

Decided October 16, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jim Sweetser, Spokane County Prosecutor, Larry D. Steinmetz, Deputy Spokane County Prosecutor, Spokane, for Petitioner.

Brian C. O'Brien, Charles S. Dorn, Spokane, for Respondent.

Christine Gregoire, Attorney General, Frederick J. Caruso, Assistant Attorney General, Olympia, Amicus Curiae for the Attorney General.

TALMADGE, Justice.

We are asked yet again to enter the "maelstrom of judicial activity," to determine if the civil forfeiture of a person's automobile used to facilitate a drug transaction bars a subsequent criminal prosecution for the drug transaction on state and federal constitutional double jeopardy grounds. After United States v. Ursery, ___ U.S. ___, 116 S.Ct. 2135, 135 L.Ed.2d 549 (1996), the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution does not...

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