Earl Roy Cooper v. City of Greenwood, Mississippi and Leflore County, Mississippi, Earl Roy Cooper v. City of Greenwood, Mississippi

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• denoting that an individual’s property interest in derivative contraband “is not extinguished automatically if the item is put to unlawful use”
• finding a due process violation where municipality seized and sold felon’s weapons without providing notice or a hearing
• finding a due process violation where municipality seized and later sold felon’s firearms after conviction without providing notice or a hearing
• “[F]irearms other than those proscribed by the National Firearms Act are not contraband per se”
• “The general rule is that seized property, other than contraband, should be returned to its rightful owner once the criminal proceedings have terminated.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).