Legal Opinion
United States v. Sum of $185,336.07 United States Currency Seized From Citizen's Bank Account L7N01967
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided September 25, 2013No. 12-2210-cvPublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOSÉ A. CABRANES, Circuit Judge:
In this appeal, we must decide whether to recognize, nostra sponte, “plain error” 1 in the legal standards applied by the District Court in concluding that certain funds of the appellant seized by the government were the product of illegal activities and therefore subject to forfeiture.
Our review of the record leads us to conclude that, although the several claims of error asserted by the appellant are without merit, the District Court’s application of legal standards antedating adoption of the Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act of 2000 (“CAFRA”), Pub.L. No.…
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