State v. $15,518 in U.S. Currency

In this in rem proceeding the appellant, Von O. Eary, has never claimed a recognized legal standing to challenge the forfeiture to the state of $15,518 seized pursuant to a search warrant in a drug raid of an Omaha motel room occupied by the appellant and his companion.

We affirm the order of the district court for Douglas County forfeiting the money to the state, not for the reasons stated by the trial court, but because Eary failed to claim legal standing to challenge the forfeiture. When the record demonstrates that the decision of the trial court is correct, although such correctness is…