Legal Opinion
Lucas v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided January 7, 2015No. 14-2291PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Per curiam
Petitioner-appellant Nicholas Lucas was arrested for marijuana possession in 2011. His brother, Justin Lucas, paid $50,000 in cash to bail him out of the Otsego County Jail. However, the Drug Enforcement Administration seized the bail money as part of a criminal investigation and Nicholas remained in jail. After Nicholas’s case was resolved by a guilty plea, Justin assigned his interest in the bail money to Nicholas, who attempted to retrieve it. By that time, the money had been forfeited through an administrative forfeiture proceeding. Claiming that neither he nor *546Justin had received notice…
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