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HOWARD COUNTY v. 1994 CHEVY

No. 463, Sept. Term., 1997.

704 A.2d 455 (1998)

119 Md. App. 93

HOWARD COUNTY, Maryland v. ONE 1994 CHEVROLET CORVETTE VIN NO. 1G1YY22P5R5100931.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

January 9, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

F. Todd Taylor, Jr., Senior Asst. County Sol. (Barbara M. Cook, Howard County Sol., on the brief), Ellicott City, for appellant.

Gary S. Bernstein, Baltimore, for appellee.

Argued before DAVIS, SALMON and KENNEY, JJ.

SALMON, Judge.

We must consider in this case the question of whether civil forfeiture to Howard County of a 1994 Chevrolet Corvette belonging to Douglas Tennant (Tennant), due to the involvement of the Corvette in violations of the Maryland drug laws, constitutes an excessive fine in violation of Article 25 of the Maryland Declaration of Rights. The trial court (Leasure, J., presiding) concluded that the forfeiture did violate...

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