Legal Opinion
United States v. Fleet Wallace Maull, Drexler, Wald & Abramovitz
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided September 21, 1988No. 87-1267PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge.
The primary issue before us is whether dismissal of a civil forfeiture action brought under 21 U.S.C. § 881 (1982' & Supp. Ill 1985) because of the refusal of the United States to amend its complaint bars a later criminal forfeiture proceeding brought under 21 U.S.C. §§ 848 (1982 & Supp. Ill 1985), 853 (Supp. Ill 1985). Both forfeitures involved essentially the same property. The district court held that dismissal of the civil forfeiture did not bar the criminal forfeiture. On appeal, Drexler, Wald and Abramovitz, a law firm to whom Fleet W. Maull had delivered…
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