IN RE FORFEITURE OF $275

Docket No. 190350.

576 N.W.2d 431 (1998)

227 Mich. App. 462

In re FORFEITURE OF $275 in United States Currency. GRAND RAPIDS POLICE DEPARTMENT, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FIVE DOLLARS IN U.S. CURRENCY, Defendant, and Cedrick Budd SPEARMAN, Claimant-Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Decided January 23, 1998, at 9:00 a.m.

Released for Publication April 13, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General, William A. Forsyth, Prosecuting Attorney, and Timothy K. McMorrow, Chief Appellate Attorney, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Anthony C. Greene, Grand Rapids, for Claimant-Appellant.

Before SMOLENSKI, P.J., and MacKENZIE and NEFF, JJ.


NEFF, Judge.

Claimant Cedrick Budd Spearman appeals as of right from the circuit court's order of forfeiture pursuant to M.C.L. § 333.7521(1)(f); M.S.A. § 14.15(7521)(1)(f). We reverse.

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Approximately $275 was seized from claimant as a result of a police investigation of trespassing activity outside Palmer's Party Store in Grand Rapids.1 As members of the Neighborhood...

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