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Turner v. State

Citations

  • 444 S.E.2d 372
  • 213 Ga. App. 309
  • 94 Fulton County D. Rep. 1778
  • 1994 Ga. App. LEXIS 572

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that, under recent statutory changes, an owner or interest holder’s “sole remedy for any failure by the district attorney to initiate the present [forfeiture] action . . . was to request the return of the property pending further proceeding”
  • affirming forfeiture regardless of whether the district attorney failed to initiate the action within 60 days of seizure of the property as required
  • defendant’s motion to dismiss was not sufficient to constitute an answer
  • defendant’s motion to dismiss was not sufficient to constitute an answer
  • explaining the impact of 1991 amendment to the forfeiture statute

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Judges: McMurray, Pope, Smith

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