Legal Opinion
$130,510.00 in U.S. Lawful Currency v. State
Texas Court of Appeals, 6th District (Texarkana)
Decided September 12, 2008No. 06-07-00132-CVPublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
Opinion by
Chief Justice MORRISS.
$130,510.00 in cash belonging to Manuel Alvarez 1 has been forfeited as contraband. That forfeiture was decreed based on circumstantial evidence of suspicious factors, including drug-dog alerts on the exterior of a pickup truck in which the cash was being transported and arguably on wrappings removed from that bundled cash. The trial court found the cash was contraband, in spite of evidence of a plausible, and at-Ieast-partially corroborated, explanation for the legitimate presence of that quantity of cash in the truck at that time.
Manuel appeals,…
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3Cited by6 opinions
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