How Alabama's civil forfeiture laws left a couple living in a storage shed
Teresa and Greg Almond are living in a storage shed.
In their 50s, business owners and upstanding citizens, they live in a storage shed, are warmed by a propane heater and use solar panels to get a smidge of energy to power a small TV at night.
They didn’t get there by personal mistakes. It wasn’t opioids or meth. Bad investments didn’t take their life savings. An Alabama tornado didn’t destroy the home they once lived in near Woodland.
Civil asset forfeiture destroyed the Almonds.
Specifically, Alabama’s ridiculously broad and downright unconstitutional civil asset forfeiture laws, which allow Alabama cops to seize property even though citizens are never convicted of a crime and then forces people to prove their innocence.
Read more: https://www.alreporter.com/2019/04/04/how-alabamas-civil-forfeiture-laws-left-a-couple-living-in-a-storage-shed/
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