Ex Parte Dorough
Supreme Court of Alabama
1Opinion of the Court
This is a civil-forfeiture case. The Court of Civil Appeals, on August 28, 1998, affirmed the order of forfeiture, without an opinion. Dorough v. State, (No. 2970379), 757 So.2d 489 (Ala.Civ.App. 1998) (table). We granted Karl James Dorough's petition for the writ of certiorari, in light of this Court's holding inKelley v. State, 766 So.2d 837, (Ala. 1999), to determine whether the forfeiture of Dorough's 1991 Mazda Navajo truck, pursuant to Ala. Code 1975, § 20-2-93(a)(5), "is grossly disproportionate to the gravity of his [alleged] offense," id., and, therefore, violates the Excessive Fines…
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