Brown v. State

In this appeal, we affirm the trial court’s denial of a petition for return of property seized during a search of the petitioner’s home. The Superior Court prevented the petitioner from raising issues concerning the legality of the search, finding that these issues had been adjudicated during the petitioner’s criminal trial and were collaterally estopped. Without resort to this evidence, the trial court found that the petitioner had failed to meet his burden of proving that the property was not subject to forfeiture. We are asked to determine whether the trial court erred in either of these…