State v. $35,453.00 U.S. Currency

li.A.J. Ellis, Jr., appeals a judgment of forfeiture of a pickup truck and two separate sums of money valued at over $82,000 in the aggregate. He focuses on three alleged errors by the trial court which found that:

1. The state’s notices of seizure were valid;

2. Ellis’s attempt to contest the forfeitures was invalid; and

3. The lack of notice of final judgments 1 was not being adversely decisive with respect to these forfeitures, under these facts, due to the administrative nature of this process.

We affirm in all respects.

FACTS

On October 11, 2007, agents of the Monroe Metro Narcotics Task…