Legal Opinion
United States v. Carrell
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided May 29, 2001No. 99-14481PublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BIRCH, Circuit Judge:
This appeal requires us to determine whether the statute of limitations had expired before the government brought a civil in rem forfeiture action against properties procured with proceeds from drug transactions. The district judge decided *1196that the government should have known earlier from recordation that the properties, titled in the names of the convicted drug offender’s ex-wife and son, were purchased with drug money and dismissed the case with prejudice. We REVERSE and REMAND.
I. BACKGROUND
Since the 1980’s, the government had been investigating Homer Lynell Carrell,…
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