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GALLOWAY v. CITY OF NEW ALBANY

No. 1998-CA-01030-SCT.

735 So.2d 407 (1999)

Ricky GALLOWAY v. CITY OF NEW ALBANY, Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

April 22, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jim Waide, Tupelo, Attorney for Appellant.

Lawrence Lee Little, Oxford, Thad J. Mueller, New Albany, Attorneys for Appellee.

BEFORE PRATHER, C.J., MILLS AND WALLER, JJ.

PRATHER, Chief Justice, for the Court:

¶ 1. In this civil forfeiture case, the trial judge granted the appellee's petition for the forfeiture of the appellant's vehicle, under the auspices of the drug forfeiture statutes. This Court reverses and renders, because (a) the petition for forfeiture was not timely filed; (b) the innocent owner exception to the forfeiture statutes applies to the appellant; and, (c) the Excessive Fines Clause of the Mississippi

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