The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether common-law forfeiture exists in the state, after the Commonwealth Court en banc ruled earlier this year that it does not.
The Commonwealth Court ruled in January that the state government has no legal basis, absent statutory authority, for seizing so-called derivative contraband, reversing an Adams County trial judge’s ruling in Commonwealth v. Irland.
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