Legal Opinion
United States v. Seventeen Thousand Nine Hundred Dollars ($17,900.00) in United States Currency
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided August 4, 2016No. Civil Action No. 2015-0368PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
CHRISTOPHER R. COOPER, United States District Judge
This case began with a familiar ethical dilemma: If you stumble upon a bag of money, do you keep it or turn it in to the police? An Amtrak passenger’s decision to take the more virtuous path led to the government’s seizure of the bag’s contents—$17,900 in cash—as the alleged fruits of illegal narcotics trafficking. Two claimants now collectively assert interests in the entire currency. They have moved to dismiss the government’s civil-forfeiture complaint, contending that it fails to plead an adequate connection between the…
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3Cited by5 opinions
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