In 2019, Harris County, Texas, police confiscated over $42,000 from a Mississippi man who was driving to Houston to buy a semitruck. Four years later, having kept the cash while filing no criminal charges against the man, the county faces a class-action lawsuit challenging its civil asset forfeiture system. “Harris County has one of the …
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