After Elizabeth Young’s son was arrested for selling $140 worth of marijuana, the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office seized her Cobbs Creek home and her car through civil forfeiture—a controversial practice that has garnered widespread outrage throughout the country.
However, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled Thursday that prosecutors overstepped their authority in seizing the 71-year-old grandmother’s home, where the District Attorney’s Office said drug deals took place, because she was not a suspect in the case.
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