Legal Opinion
United States v. Fifty-Three Thousand Eighty-Two Dollars in United States Currency, $53,082.00, Gregory Brunson Willie W. Dixon, Claimants-Appellees
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided March 23, 1993No. 91-2335PublishedCited by 81 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SUHRHEINRICH, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff United States of America appeals from the grant of summary judgment for claimants Gregory Brunson and Willie W. Dixon in this civil forfeiture action brought under 21 U.S.C. § 881(a)(6). Finding no error, we AFFIRM.
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On June 6, 1988, two DEA task force agents approached claimants as they sat in a departure area at Detroit Metropolitan Airport. The agents approached claimants initially because of the following observations: Brunson was shaking nervously; claimants were waiting in a departure area of a plane headed for Dallas, Texas, a known source city for…
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