| Court: | US Supreme Court |
| Facts: | Mr. Bennis uses the jointly owned car to consort with prostitutes. It is forfeit in the criminal proceeding. Mrs. Bennis is mad: she didn't even know this was going on, but she loses her half of the car! |
| Posture: | Dunno, exactly. |
| Issue: | Can the cops do this? |
| Holding: | Yes. |
| Rule: | We've got a long line of cases saying that an owner's interest in property may be forfeit by the use to which it is put, even though the owner didn't know about it. |
| Reasoning: | None: just stare decisis. |
| Dicta: | Dissent: So, if I smuggle a joint onto an airline, can the cops sieze the plane? If a crook stays in a hotel, can... yadda-yadda. |