Legal Opinion
Leo Muhammed Antoinette Muhammed v. Drug Enforcement Agency, Asset Forfeiture Unit
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided August 8, 1996No. 95-3194PublishedCited by 51 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BEAM, Circuit Judge.
The Muhammeds appeal the district court’s dismissal of their motion for return of seized property. We reverse.
I. BACKGROUND
This is a cautionary tale, illustrating the mischief to which our eagerness' to employ forfeiture as a weapon in the war' on drugs can lead. Although, due to the posture of the case, the factual record is sparse, the following can be gleaned from the complaint, affidavits, and the subsequent motion to dismiss. The Muhammeds,- a family from the Los Angeles area of California, were in St. Louis, Missouri, with their two-month-old infant son visiting…
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