Legal Opinion
United States v. One 1987 Mercedes 560 SEL
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided December 17, 1990No. 89-3769PublishedCited by 46 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:
Appellant James Jones was accused of participating in drug trafficking. The government brought a civil forfeiture suit seeking to confiscate the alleged drug proceeds. At trial, the government introduced evidence to show that Jones had opened a bank account the day after a large shipment of marihuana had been brought in by his nephew and that Jones’s income from his construction company was insufficient to support the large deposits he had made to this account. In addition, the government introduced the testimony of two witnesses who claimed that Jones, carrying…
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