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Timbs v. Indiana, 586 U.S. 146 (2019), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court considered whether the excessive fines clause of the Constitution's Eighth Amendment applies to state and local governments.
Nov 28, 2018 · Facts of the case. Tyson Timbs purchased a Land Rover for approximately $42,000 in January 2013 using the proceeds from his father’s life insurance policy. During the following four months, Timbs used the vehicle for multiple trips within Indiana to transport heroin.
Nov 8, 2019 · The Eighth Amendment 1 guarantees the right to be free from excessively harsh punishment at the hands of the government. Yet in spite of the amendment’s deep roots in U.S. history and jurisprudence, a critical part of it had been left behind in the incorporation project: the Excessive Fines Clause. 2 Last Term, in Timbs v.
Feb 20, 2019 · Tyson Timbs pleaded guilty in Indiana state court to dealing in a controlled substance and conspiracy to commit theft. The trial court sentenced him to one year of home detention and five years of probation, which included a court-supervised addiction-treatment program.
Tyson Timbs pleaded guilty in Indiana state court to dealing in a con-trolled substance and conspiracy to commit theft. At the time of Timbs’s arrest, the police seized a Land Rover SUV Timbs had pur-chased for $42,000 with money he received from an insurance policy when his father died.
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Nov 28, 2018 · Holding: The Eighth Amendment’s excessive fines clause is an incorporated protection applicable to the states under the 14th Amendment’s due process clause. Judgment: Vacated and remanded, 9-0, in an opinion by Justice Ginsburg on February 20, 2019. Justice Gorsuch filed a concurring opinion.
Mar 13, 2019 · And in February, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Timbs v. Indiana that state and local governments are bound by the Eighth Amendment’s ban on excessive fines, setting a historic...
