Apolinar Terrero Ruiz v. State of Mississippi

¶25. In applying the controlling standard of review to this ease involving an action in rem, I submit that we should affirm the circuit court’s judgment.2 See Six Thousand Dollars v. State ex rel. Miss. Bureau of Narcotics, 179 So.3d 7, 14 (¶ 19) (Miss.Ct.App.2014) (discussing the appropriate standard of review to apply in forfeiture cases). I therefore dissent from the majority’s opinion.

¶ 26. As stated in Hickman v. State ex rel. Mississippi Department of Public Safety, 592 So.2d 44, 45-46 (Miss.1991), a civil forfeiture proceeding is not a criminal prosecution, and Mississippi law requires…