Smith v. Cisco

Adams, Judge.

In 2008, the district attorney for the Brunswick Judicial Circuit (the State) initiated in personam and in rem forfeiture proceedings in the Superior Court of Camden County under the Georgia Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, OCGA § 16-14-1 et seq. In its complaint, the State sought forfeiture of both *872cash and property that had been used or acquired in a pump rigging scheme allegedly devised by the in personam defendants,1 who were owners and operators of three fuel plazas (the in rem defendants) located along 1-95 in south Georgia, which caused customers…