Legal Opinion
Bell v. City of Chicago
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 30, 2016No. 15-2833PublishedCited by 456 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KANNE, Circuit Judge.
In September 2012, Chicago Police Department officers arrested Plaintiff Da-wain Bell for possession of a controlled substance. At the time, Bell was driving Plaintiff Alice Spinks’s vehicle. Chicago Police impounded the vehicle after Bell’s arrest pursuant to Chicago Municipal Code § 7-24-225, which' permits police to impound a vehicle when officers have probable cause to believe it contained a controlled substance or was used in an illegal drug transaction.
Spinks challenged the impoundment two days later at a hearing before an administrative law judge (“ALJ”) in the…
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