United States v. Maritime Life Caribbean Limited

WILLIAM PRYOR, Circuit Judge:

*1030 This appeal involves two questions about an ancillary third-party forfeiture proceeding in which Maritime Life Caribbean asserted that it was given a security interest in the forfeited property: whether the district court erred in requiring Maritime Life to prove the authenticity of the collateral assignment that allegedly granted it a security interest in the forfeited property by a preponderance of the evidence, and whether the district court erred in permitting the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago to intervene in the forfeiture proceeding even though it had no…