In Re the Seizure of $23,691.00 in United States Currency

Petitioner Robert Burns of the West Yellowstone Police Department initiated this suit in the District Court of the Eighteenth Judicial District, Gallatin County, for the forfeiture of $23,691 seized from a 1991 Ford Explorer on November 15,1991. The District Court entered judgment in favor of the Petitioner for $1,980, and ordered Claimant Stacy Vanderburg (Vanderburg) to forfeit $22,980 to the Drug Forfeiture Fund of the West Yellowstone Police Department. The District Court entered judgment in favor of Claimant Donna Nelson (Nelson), allowing her to keep $711. Vanderburg appeals the…