Estate of Peetros v. County Detectives & District Attorney's Office

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a conviction is not required for forfeiture
• reversing the grant of a petition for the return of property and ordering the subject property forfeited where the trial court’s legal conclusions misapprehended the nature of derivative contraband
• “Conviction of the owner or possessor of the contraband for the underlying crime is not necessary, and even an acquittal does not operate as a bar to a finding of contraband.”
• conviction unnecessary for common law forfeiture
• conviction unnecessary for common law forfeiture

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).