State ex rel. Missouri State Highway Patrol v. Atwell

ORIGINAL PROCEEDING IN PROHIBITION

RONALD R. HOLLIGER, Judge.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol seeks a writ of prohibition barring the respondent from proceeding in the underlying suit on the basis that the claims against it are barred by the doctrine of sovereign immunity. The second amended petition before the trial court alleges that the relator seized property (cash) in which the plaintiff in the underlying proceeding claims an ownership interest. The petitioner also claims that the cash was given to federal authorities by relator in violation of Missouri’s Criminal Activity Forfeiture…