Chrysler Credit Corp. v. Shaw

*155OPINION OF THE COURT

David Goldstein, J.

Defendants move for leave to renew their opposition to the prior motion to permit the Marshal to take possession of a 1985 Dodge van, on which plaintiff holds a security interest pursuant to a retail installment agreement. On the original application, since no proof was adduced to establish that the vehicle was either contraband or the instrumentality of a crime, a necessary prerequisite to a proceeding to declare a civil forfeiture pursuant to Administrative Code of the City of New York § 14-140 (formerly § 435-4.0), the court directed defendants to…