How to Get Away With Highway Robbery

How to Get Away With Highway Robbery

Reporters in South Carolina schlepped to all 46 courthouses in the state to document every civil asset forfeiture case in a three-year period. What they found was an impossibly flawed law that rewards bad police-work.

Guests: Anna Lee, reporter for the Greenville News. Read the paper’s series, TAKEN. David Smith, a lawyer and defender of civil asset forfeiture laws, when properly applied.

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Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Jayson De Leon, and Anna Martin.

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