23 Va. App. 443 - Wilson v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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1. “Wilson was personally placed in jeopardy and punished only once: at his trial for the offense of driving without a valid license. When his vehicle was administratively impounded, it was the subject of the action, not the driver.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Shoup v. Clark

2. “A temporary impoundment of a vehicle is not a forfeiture, although it has characteristics of a forfeiture. Being temporarily deprived of one's vehicle until one pays a fee to release it also resembles a civil penalty.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 934 So. 2d 1238 - City of Hollywood v. Mulligan