United States v. United States Currency in the Amount of $228,536.00, Appeal of Edward A. Parker, Claimant-Appellant

LASKER, Senior District Judge,

sitting by designation:

This appeal presents the novel question whether the Due Process clause of the Fifth Amendment requires a court, before accepting a plea of guilty to a crime, to inform the defendant that the government might at some later time institute a civil in rem forfeiture proceeding against the fruits or instrumentalities of that crime. 1

Edward Parker appeals from a judgment entered in the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York (McAvoy, D.J.) ordering forfeiture of money seized from his property during a state drug…