Legal Opinion
United States v. Watts
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided May 4, 2015No. Docket No. 13-911-crPublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GERARD E. LYNCH, Circuit Judge:
Defendant-appellant Rodney Watts and his counsel, interested party-appellant De-Petris & Bachrach, LLP (“D & B”), appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Kiyo A. Matsumoto, Judge), granting the government’s motion to dismiss their petition asserting an interest in property found subject to forfeiture under 18 U.S.C. § 982(a)(2) following the conviction of Watts’s co-defendant, Courtney Dupree. Watts and D & B (jointly, “petitioners”) claim that, as the beneficiary of an assignment transferring a portion of…
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