Legal Opinion
United States v. Eighty Three Thousand Three Hundred Twenty Dollars ($83,320) in United States Currency and Forty Dollars ($40) in Canadian Currency
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided June 29, 1982No. 80-1834PublishedCited by 69 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PHILLIPS, Senior Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from a decision of District Judge Ralph B. Guy, Jr., ordering forfeiture to the United States of $83,320 in U.S. currency and $40 in Canadian currency. This currency was seized on June 13, 1979, from the home of the claimant, George Casey, after his arrest and the execution of a search warrant at his home in connection with narcotics violations.
Casey later entered a plea of guilty to a charge of engaging in a “continuing criminal enterprise” of illegal drug trafficking from 1973 to 1979, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 848. 1 He posted a $500,000…
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